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I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.

Al Pacino

My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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People are always asking me to do Shakespeare – at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It’s like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It’s great therapy.
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I don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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I never saw myself as a director. It’s certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.
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When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There’s a liberation in that.
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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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 want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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You need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring.
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I haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.
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After looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
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It would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.
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The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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