Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
AL PACINOIt’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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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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I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp.
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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don’t believe me when I tell them. That’s how I saw myself, in comedy.
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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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I hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
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Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you’re going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
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Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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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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My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
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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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