I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
AL PACINOOur ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Either I act or I die.
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An actor basically likes to be asked to do something, no matter what position he’s in. It feels more natural. Sitting and waiting is more gratifying.
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The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
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On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
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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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My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
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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 can see [ talent or curiosity for acting] in my oldest daughter [Julia Marie Pacino]. I don’t know how long she’ll run away from it, but it’s there in her.
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[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
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Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.
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I don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There’s a liberation in that.
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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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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