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.
AL PACINOSometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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The thing is doing it, that’s what it’s all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It’s a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself.
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You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
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You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp…Then I’d find another one.
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The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.
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I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
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That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
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I thought, what’s going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director.
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
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