It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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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Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.
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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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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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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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Either I act or I die.
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Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don’t believe me when I tell them. That’s how I saw myself, in comedy.
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The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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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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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
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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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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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I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
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They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
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