If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
AL PACINOThere are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
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People are always asking me to do Shakespeare – at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It’s like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It’s great therapy.
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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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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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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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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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The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
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It turned out that time doesn’t heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly
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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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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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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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I didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,
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