So that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It’s an extraordinary thing. It’s wild turf up there.
AL PACINOI personally think if you’re given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
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I’m much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I’ve always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me.
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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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You’re in a conversation and everybody’s agreeing with what you’re saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.
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I’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
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That’s where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that’s what I like. I’ve always felt that’s what I would like to do.
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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I haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.
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I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
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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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I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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It would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.
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It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
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Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
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