You’re in a conversation and everybody’s agreeing with what you’re saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.
AL PACINOGrease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
More Al Pacino Quotes
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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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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Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don’t sum up a man’s life in one moment.
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Early on in my career, I remember running – fleeing – to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.
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The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
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Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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You’re going to get a sense of what the hell’s going on there. Boy, you’ll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.
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We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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We’re charlatans in a way, we’re magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style.
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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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I like, for instance, ‘Serpico.’ I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could – I could embody him. I could, you know.
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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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