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.
AL PACINOIt’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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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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To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
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Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don’t believe me when I tell them. That’s how I saw myself, in comedy.
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Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.
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The play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There’s no doubt in my mind about it.
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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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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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The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
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