Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
AL PACINOWe live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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I want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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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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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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Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
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Grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
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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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There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
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I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
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When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That’s par for the course.When you’re a movie star, it went with it. It’s a kind of rite of passage, socially.
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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
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