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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More Al Pacino Quotes
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I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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I destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
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You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
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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 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 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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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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[Marlon] Brando’s a giant on every level. When he acts it’s as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
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Shakespeare is one of the reasons I’ve stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words.
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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I once asked my oldest daughter [Julia Marie] if she thought about changing her name in school and she said, “No, I’m a Pacino. That’s my name.”
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That’s the way to live – around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
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The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
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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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And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
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To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
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I’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it’s just great fodder for you. It’s wonderful source stuff that we die for.
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I like women who can cook. That’s first. Love is very important, but you’ve got to have a friend first.
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sometimes it’s better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn’t know
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I was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner – and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.
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They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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