It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
AL PACINOThe literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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I thought, what’s going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director.
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff.
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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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Grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
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When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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That’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.
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Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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