The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
AL PACINOThere are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,
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We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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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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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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I don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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And I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.
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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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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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I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don’t sum up a man’s life in one moment.
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