Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
AL PACINOSo that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It’s an extraordinary thing. It’s wild turf up there.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
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Without coffee something’s missing
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Early on in my career, I remember running – fleeing – to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.
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If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it’s just great fodder for you. It’s wonderful source stuff that we die for.
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I was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner – and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.
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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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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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That’s where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that’s what I like. I’ve always felt that’s what I would like to do.
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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