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.
AL PACINOOr try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
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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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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
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I don’t like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight…
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I haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.
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The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.
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I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
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