We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
AL PACINOEverything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
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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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If something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
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So that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It’s an extraordinary thing. It’s wild turf up there.
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I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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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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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And I think it also helps if you are a dreamer. I had my dreams all right. And that is something no one can ever take away.
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You’re going to get a sense of what the hell’s going on there. Boy, you’ll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.
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The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it’s probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.
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Read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.
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