We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
AL PACINOI would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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If something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
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At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
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I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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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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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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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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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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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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I like, for instance, ‘Serpico.’ I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could – I could embody him. I could, you know.
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I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
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