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.
AL PACINOAfter 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
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I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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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 love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
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I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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I’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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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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Without coffee something’s missing
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I’ve never cared for guns. In fact, when I did ‘Scent of a Woman’ I had to learn how to assemble one.
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All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
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At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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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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We’re charlatans in a way, we’re magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style.
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Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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I’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.
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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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