If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
AL PACINOOur life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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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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’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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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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The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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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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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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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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I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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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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I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
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Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There’s a liberation in that.
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I’ve been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That’s the stuff my dreams are made of.
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