The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
AL PACINOWhen you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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I’m always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.
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I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into 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 hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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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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There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
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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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I was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.
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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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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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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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