Al Pacino Quotes

My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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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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My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
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I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
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I never saw myself as a director. It’s certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.
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I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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[Marlon] Brando’s a giant on every level. When he acts it’s as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
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If something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
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Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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I’m always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.
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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 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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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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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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I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
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I thought it was time to show some of it, to show some of my feelings about things and what I preferred at the time. I prefer them still but not to the extent I did at the time.
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At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
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Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.
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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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I was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner – and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.
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I’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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My best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That’s my mantra.
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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 always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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