Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
AL PACINOAn actor basically likes to be asked to do something, no matter what position he’s in. It feels more natural. Sitting and waiting is more gratifying.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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My best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That’s my mantra.
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All I am is what I’m going after.
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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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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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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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It would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.
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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
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I want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
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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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My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
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