Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
AL PACINOI’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Shakespeare is one of the reasons I’ve stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words.
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I never saw myself as a director. It’s certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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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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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there’s a movie.
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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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You’re going to get a sense of what the hell’s going on there. Boy, you’ll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.
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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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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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The play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There’s no doubt in my mind about it.
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I did say to her that I thought that she had a real gift, and it’s a good idea to know that. It’s always good to go with your gift.
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I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
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