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 PACINOThe actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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Either I act or I die.
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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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You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That’s magical. He’s done a great thing.
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We’re charlatans in a way, we’re magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style.
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Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
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sometimes it’s better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn’t know
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There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
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They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
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I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there’s a movie.
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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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