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.
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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All I am is what I’m going after.
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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 don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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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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My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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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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Take a look at Israel’s history and you would know who the terrorist is.
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To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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[Ocean’s Thirteen] is a great group, and it was an opportunity to work with Steven Soderbergh. But mainly? It was shot in L.A. and I want to be next to my kids.
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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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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
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There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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