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 PACINOWhat’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
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[Ocean’s Thirteen] is a great group, and it was an opportunity to work with Steven Soderbergh. But mainly? It was shot in L.A. and I want to be next to my kids.
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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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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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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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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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Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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I can see [ talent or curiosity for acting] in my oldest daughter [Julia Marie Pacino]. I don’t know how long she’ll run away from it, but it’s there in her.
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The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
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Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.
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I was watching Revolution, and the things I did in that picture, holy smokes! I can’t believe I did that, it’s like another person. It’s the thought of it, it’s just appalling to me.
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You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
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