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.
AL PACINOThe thing is doing it, that’s what it’s all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It’s a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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 destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
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You’re going to get a sense of what the hell’s going on there. Boy, you’ll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
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[Ocean’s Thirteen] is a great group, and it was an opportunity to work with Steven Soderbergh. But mainly? It was shot in L.A. and I want to be next to my kids.
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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
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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.
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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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We’re charlatans in a way, we’re magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style.
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I thought, what’s going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director.
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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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Take a look at Israel’s history and you would know who the terrorist is.
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I personally think if you’re given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way.
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