So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
AL PACINOAnybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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Grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
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You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
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We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for ‘Scent of a Woman.’ It was a new feeling. I’d never felt it.
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
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We were doing Scarface many years ago…and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean.
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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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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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I personally think if you’re given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way.
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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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You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.
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