I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
AL PACINOThe whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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“What was that, George, what were you doing?” And he said, “They were sleeping.” You’re always trying to catch them.
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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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Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That’s magical. He’s done a great thing.
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Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
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The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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Either I act or I die.
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Take a look at Israel’s history and you would know who the terrorist is.
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The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
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There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
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I 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.
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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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