I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
AL PACINOWhat’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
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I picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
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So that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It’s an extraordinary thing. It’s wild turf up there.
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When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff.
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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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My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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I’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
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[Marlon] Brando’s a giant on every level. When he acts it’s as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
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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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When [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and they would start talking to me, asking me for my autograph and she just went under the table.
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I don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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