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.
AL PACINOWhen [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and they would start talking to me, asking me for my autograph and she just went under the table.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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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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There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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I’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.
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Many years ago, in the late ’70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire.
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Any project that I find encouraging that isn’t attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.
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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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My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
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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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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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There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
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The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
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The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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