What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
AL PACINOI always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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I didn’t want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it’s OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.
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I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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It would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.
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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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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
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It’s very evocative; it’s like a first cut because you hear ‘She walked to the door,’ and you visualize all these things. ‘She opens the door’ . . . because you read the stage directions, too.
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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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The thing is doing it, that’s what it’s all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It’s a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself.
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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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