Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don’t sum up a man’s life in one moment.
AL PACINOSometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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That’s where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that’s what I like. I’ve always felt that’s what I would like to do.
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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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The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
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Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
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I picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
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I hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
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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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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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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 was watching Revolution, and the things I did in that picture, holy smokes! I can’t believe I did that, it’s like another person. It’s the thought of it, it’s just appalling to me.
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You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
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