Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
AL PACINOMy movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
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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’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It’s a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It’s sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.
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I thought, what’s going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director.
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I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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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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There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And I think it also helps if you are a dreamer. I had my dreams all right. And that is something no one can ever take away.
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Grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
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I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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