I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
AL PACINOShakespeare is one of the reasons I’ve stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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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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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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I found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.
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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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Without coffee something’s missing
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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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My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
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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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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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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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