I hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
AL PACINO“What was that, George, what were you doing?” And he said, “They were sleeping.” You’re always trying to catch them.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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What kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
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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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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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The interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.
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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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They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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I don’t like what’s going on in Iraq, naturally. I’m part of a large majority of people who don’t, but I do not know the whole story.
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When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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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.
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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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