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.
AL PACINOThat’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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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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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Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
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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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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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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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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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I don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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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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