Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
AL PACINOThey made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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When [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and they would start talking to me, asking me for my autograph and she just went under the table.
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
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I don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.
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To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
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Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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Any project that I find encouraging that isn’t attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.
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You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.
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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And I think it also helps if you are a dreamer. I had my dreams all right. And that is something no one can ever take away.
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I was watching Revolution, and the things I did in that picture, holy smokes! I can’t believe I did that, it’s like another person. It’s the thought of it, it’s just appalling to me.
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That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
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I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
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I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
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That’s the way to live – around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
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