Al Pacino Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Mind Quotes

"To be or not to be is" [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend. I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it's probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.

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I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope. Early on in my career, I remember running - fleeing - to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.

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I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.

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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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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you, so that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It's an extraordinary thing. It's wild turf up there.

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All I am is what I'm going after.

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The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work. And I didn't think about the material as much. But sometimes I've thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn't work out.

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

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Pretty soon I'll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure. The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.

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I didn't go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.

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Vanity is my favourite sin.

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It's so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can't believe how insufferably boring it is. Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.

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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 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 don't need bodyguards. I'm from the South Bronx.

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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that's it. Where is the moment?

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

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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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A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don't trust reading the scripts that much. I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there's a movie. It's very evocative; it's like a first cut because you hear 'She walked to the door,' and you visualize all these things. 'She opens the door' . . . because you read the stage directions, too.

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You don't get to know anybody in a movie until after it's over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.

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