Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
AL PACINOThe actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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You want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you’re with is also your friend.
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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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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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I destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
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My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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I don’t care if it’s a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath – whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
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If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it’s just great fodder for you. It’s wonderful source stuff that we die for.
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Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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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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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 would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
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I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
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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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A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.
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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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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 did say to her that I thought that she had a real gift, and it’s a good idea to know that. It’s always good to go with your gift.
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To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
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In America most everybody who’s Italian is half Italian. Except me. I’m all Italian. I’m mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.
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