The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
AL PACINOThere is no happiness. There is only concentration.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
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The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.
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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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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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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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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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When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff.
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I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.
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My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp.
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There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.
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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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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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