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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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you. You're in a conversation and everybody's agreeing with what you're saying - even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don't want to hear.
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Take a look at Israel's history and you would know who the terrorist is.
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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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I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
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All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
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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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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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Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
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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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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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Sometimes you're fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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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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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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We were doing Scarface many years ago...and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean. 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, Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.
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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 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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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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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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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'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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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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Sometimes it's better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn't know.