Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
AL PACINOTo me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It’s a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It’s sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.
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There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
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If something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
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All I am is what I’m going after.
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It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.
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I’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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I was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, “The Sea Gull,” when was 14 in the Bronx.
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Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
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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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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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You need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring.
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