Al Pacino Quotes, Acting Quotes, Use Quotes

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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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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I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping. It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.

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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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When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story, the story of Salome, the play itself and what it is, what it contains, and my journey as an actor, as a director, as a filmmaker, as a person struggling with whatever I'm struggling with - my own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.

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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be, I am a dancer. But I don't think I would be on 'Dancing with the Stars,' mainly because I would be too shy.

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An actor basically likes to be asked to do something, no matter what position he's in. It feels more natural. Sitting and waiting is more gratifying.

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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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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.

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I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.

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I was never very happy with performing; it didn't turn me on much.

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I haven't encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way. I did say to her that I thought that she had a real gift, and it's a good idea to know that. It's always good to go with your gift.

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I would say I am more concerned with the plays I'm going to do than the movies. I'm more comfortable in a play. In film, there's always a certain sense of control, of holding back. The stage is different ; there's more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.

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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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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.

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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren't different things. Sometimes they are the same exact thing.

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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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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.

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I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn't want to be told what to do. I had no identification.

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Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.

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