I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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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On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
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Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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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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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
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Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
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I like, for instance, ‘Serpico.’ I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could – I could embody him. I could, you know.
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it’s just great fodder for you. It’s wonderful source stuff that we die for.
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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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Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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I can see [ talent or curiosity for acting] in my oldest daughter [Julia Marie Pacino]. I don’t know how long she’ll run away from it, but it’s there in her.
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