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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People are always asking me to do Shakespeare – at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It’s like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It’s great therapy.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
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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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Failure’s relative. I’ve always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something’s not right about that. It’s how you treat failure, too.
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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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I don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
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I’m always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.
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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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Grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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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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