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.
AL PACINOGrease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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I picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
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I’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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Shakespeare is one of the reasons I’ve stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words.
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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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I can see [ talent or curiosity for acting] in my oldest daughter [Julia Marie Pacino]. I don’t know how long she’ll run away from it, but it’s there in her.
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They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
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Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don’t sum up a man’s life in one moment.
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All I am is what I’m going after.
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Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
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What kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
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