Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
AL PACINOMy grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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Many years ago, in the late ’70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire.
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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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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 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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Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.
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I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
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[Ocean’s Thirteen] is a great group, and it was an opportunity to work with Steven Soderbergh. But mainly? It was shot in L.A. and I want to be next to my kids.
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I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
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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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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
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They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
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I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp.
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