It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
AL PACINOIs it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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I hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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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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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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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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I never saw myself as a director. It’s certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.
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I’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.
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I used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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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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Without coffee something’s missing
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There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
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I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
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I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
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I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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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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Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
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I don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
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