Al Pacino Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart.”
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“The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.”
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“I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn't want to do movies that much. I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.”
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“I'm an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.”
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“Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.”
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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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“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'm constantly striving to break through to something new. You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.”
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“Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.”
-- Al PacinoSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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“Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you're going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.”
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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 don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp. 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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“Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.”
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“It wasn't until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.”
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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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“On any given Sunday you're gonna win or you're gonna lose. The point is -- can you win or lose like a man?”
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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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“I'm so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.”
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“I don't think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great. You've got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition's an opportunity to have an audience.”
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“Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.”
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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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“My weaknesses... I wish I could come up with something. I'd probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they're the same thing.”
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“Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.”
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“The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I'm talking about.”
-- Al PacinoSource : "Pacino's way" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. December 02, 2004.
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“Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don't believe me when I tell them. That's how I saw myself, in comedy.”
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“The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.”
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“I hope the perception is that I'm an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.”
-- Al Pacino
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