Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
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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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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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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Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
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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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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
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My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
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You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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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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Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you’re going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
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Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.
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I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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I would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
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You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.
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