Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
AL PACINOEarly 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
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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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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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I did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they’ll pay attention long enough to consume it.
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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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I didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,
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All I am is what I’m going after.
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I thought it was time to show some of it, to show some of my feelings about things and what I preferred at the time. I prefer them still but not to the extent I did at the time.
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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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What kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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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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