What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
AL PACINOI can see [ talent or curiosity for acting] in my oldest daughter [Julia Marie Pacino]. I don’t know how long she’ll run away from it, but it’s there in her.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
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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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Either I act or I die.
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One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, “The Sea Gull,” when was 14 in the Bronx.
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
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If something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
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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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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
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You want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you’re with is also your friend.
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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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