You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.
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I can see [ talent or curiosity for acting] in my oldest daughter [Julia Marie Pacino]. I don’t know how long she’ll run away from it, but it’s there in her.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.
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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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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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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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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 don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.
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Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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I come from the South Bronx – a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.
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Either I act or I die.
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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I’m an actor, and everything about me – the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world – has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.
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There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
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