Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don’t sum up a man’s life in one moment.
AL PACINOThat’s where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that’s what I like. I’ve always felt that’s what I would like to do.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.
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I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
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Read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.
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You need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring.
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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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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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I was watching Revolution, and the things I did in that picture, holy smokes! I can’t believe I did that, it’s like another person. It’s the thought of it, it’s just appalling to me.
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
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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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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don’t believe me when I tell them. That’s how I saw myself, in comedy.
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You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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I don’t care if it’s a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath – whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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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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I want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
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My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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It’s very evocative; it’s like a first cut because you hear ‘She walked to the door,’ and you visualize all these things. ‘She opens the door’ . . . because you read the stage directions, too.
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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 believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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