Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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More Al Pacino Quotes
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I like women who can cook. That’s first. Love is very important, but you’ve got to have a friend first.
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Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.
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Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.
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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’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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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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I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
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I thought it was time to show some of it, to show some of my feelings about things and what I preferred at the time. I prefer them still but not to the extent I did at the time.
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The play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There’s no doubt in my mind about it.
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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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I’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
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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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Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don’t sum up a man’s life in one moment.
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