You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That’s magical. He’s done a great thing.
AL PACINOThe fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
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I’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
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I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
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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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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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When [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and they would start talking to me, asking me for my autograph and she just went under the table.
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I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
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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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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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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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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
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There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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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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Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And I think it also helps if you are a dreamer. I had my dreams all right. And that is something no one can ever take away.
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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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It turned out that time doesn’t heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly
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A lot of acting is private time.
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I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp.
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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 hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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