Either I act or I die.
AL PACINOWhen you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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That’s the way to live – around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
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When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
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There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, “Hey, I have to stop this silliness.”
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My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.
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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 was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.
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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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To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
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Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
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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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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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When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff.
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I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
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It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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