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.
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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[Oscar Wilde’s Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that’s why I guess it’s semi-autobiographical.
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All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
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I like women who can cook. That’s first. Love is very important, but you’ve got to have a friend first.
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
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We were doing Scarface many years ago…and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean.
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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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When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
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I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
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Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
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I did say to her that I thought that she had a real gift, and it’s a good idea to know that. It’s always good to go with your gift.
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