Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you’re going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
AL PACINOTake a look at Israel’s history and you would know who the terrorist is.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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I didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,
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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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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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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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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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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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I thought it was time to show some of it, to show some of my feelings about things and what I preferred at the time. I prefer them still but not to the extent I did at the time.
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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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And I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.
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You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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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 was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner – and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.
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I’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.
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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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That’s where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that’s what I like. I’ve always felt that’s what I would like to do.
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Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don’t believe me when I tell them. That’s how I saw myself, in comedy.
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It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.
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All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
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So that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It’s an extraordinary thing. It’s wild turf up there.
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My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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