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?
AL PACINOI don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There’s a liberation in that.
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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Either I act or I die.
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Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
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I didn’t go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.
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Failure’s relative. I’ve always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something’s not right about that. It’s how you treat failure, too.
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I’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
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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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