When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
AL PACINOI’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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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I’ve been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That’s the stuff my dreams are made of.
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I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
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It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for ‘Scent of a Woman.’ It was a new feeling. I’d never felt it.
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You’re in a conversation and everybody’s agreeing with what you’re saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.
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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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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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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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The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
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When [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and they would start talking to me, asking me for my autograph and she just went under the table.
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I believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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I did say to her that I thought that she had a real gift, and it’s a good idea to know that. It’s always good to go with your gift.
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The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
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