Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
AL PACINOIt’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
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A lot of acting is private time.
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I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
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I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
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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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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
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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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I am a dancer. But I don’t think I would be on ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ mainly because I would be too shy.
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Failure’s relative. I’ve always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something’s not right about that. It’s how you treat failure, too.
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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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You’re in a conversation and everybody’s agreeing with what you’re saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.
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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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