The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
AL PACINOIf I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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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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When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
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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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All I am is what I’m going after.
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“What was that, George, what were you doing?” And he said, “They were sleeping.” You’re always trying to catch them.
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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
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It would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.
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There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
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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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