It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
AL PACINOI’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
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I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
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I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.
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Without coffee something’s missing
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I did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they’ll pay attention long enough to consume it.
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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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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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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 don’t like what’s going on in Iraq, naturally. I’m part of a large majority of people who don’t, but I do not know the whole story.
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I once asked my oldest daughter [Julia Marie] if she thought about changing her name in school and she said, “No, I’m a Pacino. That’s my name.”
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