It would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.
AL PACINOSometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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[Ocean’s Thirteen] is a great group, and it was an opportunity to work with Steven Soderbergh. But mainly? It was shot in L.A. and I want to be next to my kids.
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The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
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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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There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
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I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
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At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
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My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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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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I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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My best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That’s my mantra.
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I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it’s probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.
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