All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
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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Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
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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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Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
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We’re charlatans in a way, we’re magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style.
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I do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it’s hard for me to discern. I don’t like what it’s doing to the world.
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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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I would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
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Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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I was watching Revolution, and the things I did in that picture, holy smokes! I can’t believe I did that, it’s like another person. It’s the thought of it, it’s just appalling to me.
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[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we’re not going to talk about that.
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You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That’s magical. He’s done a great thing.
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Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
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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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I was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner – and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.
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That’s the way to live – around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
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