I’ve been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That’s the stuff my dreams are made of.
AL PACINOWithout coffee something’s missing
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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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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I am a dancer. But I don’t think I would be on ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ mainly because I would be too shy.
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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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Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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Read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.
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Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There’s a liberation in that.
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Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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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 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’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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