It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.
AL PACINOThere is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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That’s where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that’s what I like. I’ve always felt that’s what I would like to do.
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There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.
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Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
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If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I’m in it, whatever that means.
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A lot of acting is private time.
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I personally think if you’re given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way.
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They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
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Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
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I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
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I didn’t go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.
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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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