They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
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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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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What kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
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I don’t like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight…
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The interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.
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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 physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
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I’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
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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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My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
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All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
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When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
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A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.
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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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Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It’s a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It’s sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.
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