Many years ago, in the late ’70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire.
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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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 need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring.
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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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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
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I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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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’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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I am a dancer. But I don’t think I would be on ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ mainly because I would be too shy.
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I don’t like what’s going on in Iraq, naturally. I’m part of a large majority of people who don’t, but I do not know the whole story.
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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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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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