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.
AL PACINOI 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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Any project that I find encouraging that isn’t attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
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I don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.
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I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
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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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One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, “The Sea Gull,” when was 14 in the Bronx.
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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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My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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All I am is what I’m going after.
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After looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
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I haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.
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