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.
AL PACINOI wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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I don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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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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I believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
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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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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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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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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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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we’re not going to talk about that.
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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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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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I go all over the world, I have access to many things, many people, many places and it’s wonderful. But now I’m at a point where.
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They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
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