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.
AL PACINOSometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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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.
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I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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In America most everybody who’s Italian is half Italian. Except me. I’m all Italian. I’m mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.
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Take a look at Israel’s history and you would know who the terrorist is.
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When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That’s par for the course.When you’re a movie star, it went with it. It’s a kind of rite of passage, socially.
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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
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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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I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.
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The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.
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Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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After looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
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Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
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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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