I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
AL PACINOI 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
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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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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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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’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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It’s very evocative; it’s like a first cut because you hear ‘She walked to the door,’ and you visualize all these things. ‘She opens the door’ . . . because you read the stage directions, too.
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[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
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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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Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
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“What was that, George, what were you doing?” And he said, “They were sleeping.” You’re always trying to catch them.
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I’ve never cared for guns. In fact, when I did ‘Scent of a Woman’ I had to learn how to assemble one.
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I don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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sometimes it’s better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn’t know
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