Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
AL PACINOThe only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
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[Ocean’s Thirteen] is a great group, and it was an opportunity to work with Steven Soderbergh. But mainly? It was shot in L.A. and I want to be next to my kids.
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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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I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, “The Sea Gull,” when was 14 in the Bronx.
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The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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If something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
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There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
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Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.
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Early on in my career, I remember running – fleeing – to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.
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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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I’m an actor, and everything about me – the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world – has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.
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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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