I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
AL PACINOIf I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I’m in it, whatever that means.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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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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Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
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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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And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
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When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
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I don’t like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight…
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I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
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I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
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I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
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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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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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In America most everybody who’s Italian is half Italian. Except me. I’m all Italian. I’m mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.
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I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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