Either I act or I die.
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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I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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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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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 no happiness. There is only concentration.
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It’s a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It’s sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.
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Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.
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I was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.
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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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A lot of acting is private time.
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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