It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
AL PACINOActors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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All I am is what I’m going after.
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It’s very evocative; it’s like a first cut because you hear ‘She walked to the door,’ and you visualize all these things. ‘She opens the door’ . . . because you read the stage directions, too.
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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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I’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
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I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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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 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 people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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I come from the South Bronx – a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.
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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 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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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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