It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
AL PACINOYou’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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I’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.
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Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
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I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
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It would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.
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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.
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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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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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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 am a dancer. But I don’t think I would be on ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ mainly because I would be too shy.
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I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work.
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If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I’m in it, whatever that means.
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