It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
AL PACINOA good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
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It turned out that time doesn’t heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly
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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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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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That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
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[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we’re not going to talk about that.
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
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I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
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Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
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I didn’t go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.
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I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.
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So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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So that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It’s an extraordinary thing. It’s wild turf up there.
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