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.
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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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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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 don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.
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Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.
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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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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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I’m an actor, and everything about me – the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world – has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.
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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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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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It turned out that time doesn’t heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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