Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
AL PACINO[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
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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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What kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
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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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Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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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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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
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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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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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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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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
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There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.
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I once asked my oldest daughter [Julia Marie] if she thought about changing her name in school and she said, “No, I’m a Pacino. That’s my name.”
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I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there’s a movie.
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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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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’ve been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That’s the stuff my dreams are made of.
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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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I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
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