It would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.
AL PACINOThe 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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Many years ago, in the late ’70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire.
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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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I once asked my oldest daughter [Julia Marie] if she thought about changing her name in school and she said, “No, I’m a Pacino. That’s my name.”
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I’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.
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Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
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I like women who can cook. That’s first. Love is very important, but you’ve got to have a friend first.
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The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
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After looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
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A lot of acting is private time.
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I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
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They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
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