You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
AL PACINOSometimes they are the same exact thing.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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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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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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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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I do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it’s hard for me to discern. I don’t like what it’s doing to the world.
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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.
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I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
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A lot of acting is private time.
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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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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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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’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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