Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
AL PACINOIt was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, “The Sea Gull,” when was 14 in the Bronx.
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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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I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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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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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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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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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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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
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There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
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