You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That’s magical. He’s done a great thing.
AL PACINOI always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
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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 always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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I come from the South Bronx – a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.
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I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
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So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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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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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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Either I act or I die.
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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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I didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,
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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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