When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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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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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I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
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And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
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Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
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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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In America most everybody who’s Italian is half Italian. Except me. I’m all Italian. I’m mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.
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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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I’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
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I’m an actor, and everything about me – the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world – has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.
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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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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 try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there’s a movie.
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