When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
AL PACINOYou’re in a conversation and everybody’s agreeing with what you’re saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Many years ago, in the late ’70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire.
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All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
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A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.
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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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Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions.
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I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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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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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff.
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My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.
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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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