Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you’re going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
AL PACINOI want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
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I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
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They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
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The play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There’s no doubt in my mind about it.
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It turned out that time doesn’t heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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Early on in my career, I remember running – fleeing – to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.
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What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
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It used to worry me what people said about me. I’m learning not to worry as much.
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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 destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
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You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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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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