Al Pacino Quotes, Hard Work Quotes, Acting Quotes

Acting is hard work. At times, it's very energizing and enervating. It's childish. It's also responsible. It's illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It's bizarre, diabolical. It's exciting.

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I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.

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You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.

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I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.

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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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Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating. There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.

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It turned out that time doesn't heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly

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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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I'm not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I've always displayed. I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we're very outgoing with our emotions.

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You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse; grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God... and where can you go from there?

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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 much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I've always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me. I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.

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Take a look at Israel's history and you would know who the terrorist is.

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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities. I've never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.

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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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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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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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I come from the South Bronx - a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.

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I probably write a poem every 50 years.

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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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