Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.
AL PACINOThe actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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I never saw myself as a director. It’s certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.
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I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
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Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
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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 come from the South Bronx – a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.
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I don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.
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I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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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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I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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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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