I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
AL PACINOAll due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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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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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 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.
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I hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
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The thing is doing it, that’s what it’s all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It’s a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself.
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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
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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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There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
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One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, “The Sea Gull,” when was 14 in the Bronx.
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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
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Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
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