I’m always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.
AL PACINOAll due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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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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I’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don’t sum up a man’s life in one moment.
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Failure’s relative. I’ve always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something’s not right about that. It’s how you treat failure, too.
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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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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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Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it’s just great fodder for you. It’s wonderful source stuff that we die for.
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