The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
AL PACINOI found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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We were doing Scarface many years ago…and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean.
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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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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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Any project that I find encouraging that isn’t attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.
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Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
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When I was doing ‘Scarface,’ I remember being in love at that time. One of the few times in my life. And I was so glad it was at that time.
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I want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
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I thought, what’s going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director.
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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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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’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
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