Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
AL PACINOWhen 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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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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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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I was watching Revolution, and the things I did in that picture, holy smokes! I can’t believe I did that, it’s like another person. It’s the thought of it, it’s just appalling to me.
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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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I haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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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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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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That’s the way to live – around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
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