The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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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It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
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sometimes it’s better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn’t know
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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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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.
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I don’t care if it’s a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath – whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
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The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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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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I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
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The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.
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On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
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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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I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
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Without coffee something’s missing
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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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If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I’m in it, whatever that means.
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