The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
AL PACINOI 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.”
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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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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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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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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What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
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You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
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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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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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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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I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
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I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there’s a movie.
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
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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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Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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Any project that I find encouraging that isn’t attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.
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I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
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The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
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And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
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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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Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
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