Al Pacino Quotes, Break Through Quotes, Trying Quotes

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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I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it, I destroy it because it's no longer coming from my unconscious.

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

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I never saw myself as a director. It's certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.

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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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Look, but don't touch. Touch, but don't taste. Taste, but don't swallow.

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

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I like women who can cook. That's first. Love is very important, but you've got to have a friend first - you want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you're with is also your friend.

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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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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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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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One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, "The Sea Gull," when was 14 in the Bronx.

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I can see [ talent or curiosity for acting] in my oldest daughter [Julia Marie Pacino]. I don't know how long she'll run away from it, but it's there in her.

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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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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn't good enough. I didn't know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.

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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can't help himself. You're talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, "He's puttin' that in his cash register!"

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There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice. At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him, "What was that, George, what were you doing?" And he said, "They were sleeping." You're always trying to catch them.

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You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That's magical. He's done a great thing.

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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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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.

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