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 PACINOIf something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
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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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Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.
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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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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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I’ve been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That’s the stuff my dreams are made of.
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It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There’s a liberation in that.
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My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
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Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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People are always asking me to do Shakespeare – at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It’s like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It’s great therapy.
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I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
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I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp…Then I’d find another one.
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