The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
AL PACINOI learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.
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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 hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
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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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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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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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The thing is doing it, that’s what it’s all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It’s a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself.
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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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I personally think if you’re given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way.
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I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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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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There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
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It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for ‘Scent of a Woman.’ It was a new feeling. I’d never felt it.
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I found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.
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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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I’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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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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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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If something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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I was watching Revolution, and the things I did in that picture, holy smokes! I can’t believe I did that, it’s like another person. It’s the thought of it, it’s just appalling to me.
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When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
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