Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
AL PACINOJamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It’s a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It’s sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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I’ve been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That’s the stuff my dreams are made of.
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I’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
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There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, “Hey, I have to stop this silliness.”
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A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
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I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.
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Either I act or I die.
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I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It’s a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It’s sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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I don’t like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight…
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I don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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[Marlon] Brando’s a giant on every level. When he acts it’s as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
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