What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
AL PACINOI 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
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I come from the South Bronx – a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.
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The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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I like, for instance, ‘Serpico.’ I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could – I could embody him. I could, you know.
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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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I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
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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 did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they’ll pay attention long enough to consume it.
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Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.
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Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
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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 try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there’s a movie.
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