They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
AL PACINOSometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
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It’s very evocative; it’s like a first cut because you hear ‘She walked to the door,’ and you visualize all these things. ‘She opens the door’ . . . because you read the stage directions, too.
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Failure’s relative. I’ve always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something’s not right about that. It’s how you treat failure, too.
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Grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
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We’re charlatans in a way, we’re magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style.
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It used to worry me what people said about me. I’m learning not to worry as much.
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The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it’s probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.
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It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
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I haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.
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I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
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[Marlon] Brando’s a giant on every level. When he acts it’s as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
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I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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I don’t like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight…
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