The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
AL PACINOShow me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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Grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
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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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They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
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You want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you’re with is also your friend.
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
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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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Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It’s a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It’s sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.
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Early on in my career, I remember running – fleeing – to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.
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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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Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
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Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.
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You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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