Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
AL PACINOI personally think if you’re given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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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 do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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We were doing Scarface many years ago…and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean.
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I didn’t go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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And I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.
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I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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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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I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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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.
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I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
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