It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
AL PACINOMy dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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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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People are always asking me to do Shakespeare – at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It’s like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It’s great therapy.
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They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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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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There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
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I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
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I want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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I don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.
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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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It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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Without coffee something’s missing
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I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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I’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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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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Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don’t sum up a man’s life in one moment.
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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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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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