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.
AL PACINOThe actor becomes an emotional athlete.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I don’t like what’s going on in Iraq, naturally. I’m part of a large majority of people who don’t, but I do not know the whole story.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
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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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The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work.
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I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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I would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
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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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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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The thing is doing it, that’s what it’s all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It’s a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself.
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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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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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