I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
AL PACINOI want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
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Without coffee something’s missing
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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
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Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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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 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 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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If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I’m in it, whatever that means.
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You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.
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At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
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If something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
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[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
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The story of Salome, the play itself and what it is, what it contains, and my journey as an actor, as a director, as a filmmaker, as a person struggling with whatever I’m struggling with.
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