I want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
AL PACINO
If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it’s just great fodder for you. It’s wonderful source stuff that we die for.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
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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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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’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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I would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
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There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.
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I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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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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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
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Early on in my career, I remember running – fleeing – to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.
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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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