There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
AL PACINOThe actor becomes an emotional athlete.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.
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I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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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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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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The story of Salome, the play itself and what it is, what it contains, and my journey as an actor, as a director, as a filmmaker, as a person struggling with whatever I’m struggling with.
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I would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
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You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
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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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It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for ‘Scent of a Woman.’ It was a new feeling. I’d never felt it.
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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
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I’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
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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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