I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
AL PACINOI 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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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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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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My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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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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You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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Take a look at Israel’s history and you would know who the terrorist is.
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I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.
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I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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