I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
AL PACINOSo that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It’s an extraordinary thing. It’s wild turf up there.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
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The play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There’s no doubt in my mind about it.
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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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Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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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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My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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That’s where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that’s what I like. I’ve always felt that’s what I would like to do.
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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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Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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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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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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