Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
AL PACINOIt was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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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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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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A lot of acting is private time.
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There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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I don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.
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There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
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Read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.
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You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
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The interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.
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Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.
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