They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
AL PACINOSometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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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.
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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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I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.
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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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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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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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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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I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.
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I’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
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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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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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