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.
AL PACINOThey cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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I’m always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.
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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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A lot of acting is private time.
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I didn’t want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it’s OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.
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I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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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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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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We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
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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 think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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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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