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.
AL PACINOI was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
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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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Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It’s a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It’s sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.
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I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
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Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
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I did say to her that I thought that she had a real gift, and it’s a good idea to know that. It’s always good to go with your gift.
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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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That’s the way to live – around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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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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If something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
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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 didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,
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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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