I’ve been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That’s the stuff my dreams are made of.
AL PACINOI believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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I go all over the world, I have access to many things, many people, many places and it’s wonderful. But now I’m at a point where.
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I’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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I’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
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I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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The thing is doing it, that’s what it’s all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It’s a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself.
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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work.
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Many years ago, in the late ’70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire.
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“What was that, George, what were you doing?” And he said, “They were sleeping.” You’re always trying to catch them.
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Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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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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I hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
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