Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
AL PACINOReally, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
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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’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
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I personally think if you’re given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way.
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My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I’m in it, whatever that means.
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I’ve been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That’s the stuff my dreams are made of.
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I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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Without coffee something’s missing
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Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
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If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it’s just great fodder for you. It’s wonderful source stuff that we die for.
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To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
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