Al Pacino Quotes
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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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Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
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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 wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn't good enough. I didn't know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, "The Sea Gull," when was 14 in the Bronx.
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I've often said there's two kinds of actors. There's a more gregarious type and the shy type.
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I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
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They say we die twice - once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
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I' ve won awards. And they didn't make me feel bad winning them. They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
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I've had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people - you could almost call them marriages, even though I didn't marry. But it was costly.
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
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It's not personal, it's strictly business.
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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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Learning (Shakespeare's plays) ...in school was a bit of a bore.
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I don't regret anything. I feel like I've made what I would call mistakes. I picked the wrong movie, or I didn't pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
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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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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate.
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The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
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[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we're not going to talk about that.
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After looking at Salomaybe, I don't know who the hell the real me is. I think it's closest now to the real me because for one thing, I'm used to this.
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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty. Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I've had close relationships with.
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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.
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Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would've wanted to play 10 years ago, I don't want to play now.