Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
AL PACINOI’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
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Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
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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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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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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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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 didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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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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I thought it was time to show some of it, to show some of my feelings about things and what I preferred at the time. I prefer them still but not to the extent I did at the time.
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I haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.
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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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