Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
AL PACINOWhen you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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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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Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
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I don’t care if it’s a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath – whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
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The 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.
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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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I come from the South Bronx – a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.
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I used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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