I want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
AL PACINOSometimes they are the same exact thing.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
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I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
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Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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Failure’s relative. I’ve always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something’s not right about that. It’s how you treat failure, too.
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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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An actor basically likes to be asked to do something, no matter what position he’s in. It feels more natural. Sitting and waiting is more gratifying.
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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 like, for instance, ‘Serpico.’ I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could – I could embody him. I could, you know.
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