Al Pacino Quotes, Stars Quotes, Perception Quotes

I hope the perception is that I'm an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.

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Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.

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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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I'm an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.

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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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At this point in my career, I don't have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things. My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.

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I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling - I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem. I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.

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I like, for instance, 'Serpico.' I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could - I could embody him. I could, you know, I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It's almost like a painter having a model to become.

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I don't talk politics and I don't talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.

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Sometimes you're fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.

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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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People are always asking me to do Shakespeare - at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It's like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It's great therapy.

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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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[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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I wouldn't be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast. Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.

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We live in a world where the more you're working, the more things you do. It's a workaday world.

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

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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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The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.

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

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