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.
AL PACINOIf you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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People are always asking me to do Shakespeare – at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It’s like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It’s great therapy.
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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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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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We’re charlatans in a way, we’re magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style.
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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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That’s the way to live – around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
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A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
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If something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
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That’s where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that’s what I like. I’ve always felt that’s what I would like to do.
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I once asked my oldest daughter [Julia Marie] if she thought about changing her name in school and she said, “No, I’m a Pacino. That’s my name.”
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I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
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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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Early on in my career, I remember running – fleeing – to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.
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I’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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