Al Pacino Quotes, Giving Quotes, Extraordinary Things Quotes

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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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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It's not personal, it's strictly business

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

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The interesting thing about this is I don't know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about. I'm sensing something and I'm going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted - Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.

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

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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 probably write a poem every 50 years.

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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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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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That's the way to live - around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.

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We're charlatans in a way, we're magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style, I did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they'll pay attention long enough to consume it.

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

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The fruit falls off the tree. You don't shake it off before it's ready to fall.

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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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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.

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Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.

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