I’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
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More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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I was watching Revolution, and the things I did in that picture, holy smokes! I can’t believe I did that, it’s like another person. It’s the thought of it, it’s just appalling to me.
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I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you’re going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
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The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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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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At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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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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You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
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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’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
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