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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More Al Pacino Quotes
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Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It’s a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It’s sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.
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I haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.
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There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
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If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I’m in it, whatever that means.
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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.
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I do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it’s hard for me to discern. I don’t like what it’s doing to the world.
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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
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Many years ago, in the late ’70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire.
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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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I’m an actor, and everything about me – the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world – has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.
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There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And I think it also helps if you are a dreamer. I had my dreams all right. And that is something no one can ever take away.
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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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