The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
AL PACINO“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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A lot of acting is private time.
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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That’s magical. He’s done a great thing.
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My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
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Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
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There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And I think it also helps if you are a dreamer. I had my dreams all right. And that is something no one can ever take away.
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The interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.
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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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I’m always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
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I’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
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I 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.
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