I want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
AL PACINOSometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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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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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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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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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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Without coffee something’s missing
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I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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Either I act or I die.
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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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I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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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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