The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
AL PACINOI am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, “Hey, I have to stop this silliness.”
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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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When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
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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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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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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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A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
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I’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
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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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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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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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