Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
AL PACINOWe’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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
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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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My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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I hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
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I didn’t go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.
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At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions.
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What kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
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I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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