I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
AL PACINOThere are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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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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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’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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The thing is doing it, that’s what it’s all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It’s a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself.
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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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Early on in my career, I remember running – fleeing – to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.
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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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I can see [ talent or curiosity for acting] in my oldest daughter [Julia Marie Pacino]. I don’t know how long she’ll run away from it, but it’s there in her.
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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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I like, for instance, ‘Serpico.’ I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could – I could embody him. I could, you know.
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I did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they’ll pay attention long enough to consume it.
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I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there’s a movie.
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