If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
AL PACINOI’ve been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That’s the stuff my dreams are made of.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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The play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There’s no doubt in my mind about it.
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The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work.
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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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The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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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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My best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That’s my mantra.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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I was watching Revolution, and the things I did in that picture, holy smokes! I can’t believe I did that, it’s like another person. It’s the thought of it, it’s just appalling to me.
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When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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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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I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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If something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
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When I was doing ‘Scarface,’ I remember being in love at that time. One of the few times in my life. And I was so glad it was at that time.
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