I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
AL PACINOLearning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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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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Without coffee something’s missing
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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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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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Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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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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My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.
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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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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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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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The thing is doing it, that’s what it’s all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It’s a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself.
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Shakespeare is one of the reasons I’ve stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words.
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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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The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
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