Al Pacino Quotes - Page 6

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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.

  Al Pacino

  Believe, People, Saws

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• I've often said there's two kinds of actors. There's a more gregarious type and the shy type.

  Al Pacino

  Two, Shy, Actors

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• I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.

  Al Pacino

  Alive, Theater, Streets

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• Whether he's doing great acting or not, you're seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor. What he does with it, that's something else, but he's got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that's why he has endured.

  Al Pacino

  Acting, Doe, Actors

  Lawrence Grobel, Al Pacino (2008). “Al Pacino”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• My movies are always being played on television, I'm very well known and all that stuff - I go all over the world, I have access to many things, many people, many places and it's wonderful. But now I'm at a point where...I thought it was time to show some of it, to show some of my feelings about things and what I preferred at the time. I prefer them still but not to the extent I did at the time.

  Al Pacino

  People, Feelings, Stuff

  Source: www.rawkblog.net

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• I've never cared for guns. In fact, when I did 'Scent of a Woman' I had to learn how to assemble one.

  Al Pacino

  Gun, Scent, Facts

  "Pacino's way" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. December 02, 2004.

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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.

  Al Pacino

  Guy, Done, Great Things

  Source: www.rawkblog.net

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• Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.

  Al Pacino

  Air, Actors, Eras

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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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.

  Al Pacino

  Children, Names, Worry

  Source: www.rawkblog.net

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• 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.

  Al Pacino

  Hard Work, Acting, Joyful

  "Our December 1992 Cover Story: 'Family Values'" by Jonathan Poneman, scrapsfromtheloft.com. December 12, 2017.

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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.

  Al Pacino

  Believe, Writing, Character

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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.

  Al Pacino

  People, Drug, Saws

  Lawrence Grobel, Al Pacino (2008). “Al Pacino”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it's just great fodder for you. It's wonderful source stuff that we die for.

  Al Pacino

  Opportunity, Actors, Stuff

  Source: www.joe.ie

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• I didn't want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally - Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least, I didn't want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it's OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.

  Al Pacino

  Book, Years, Want

  Source: www.rawkblog.net

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• My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life. So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.

  Al Pacino

  Joy, Grandfather, Kind

  Lawrence Grobel, Al Pacino (2008). “Al Pacino”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• Shakespeare is one of the reasons I've stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words... I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.

  Al Pacino

  Reading, Joy, Feelings

  Lawrence Grobel, Al Pacino (2008). “Al Pacino”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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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.

  Al Pacino

  Sea, Play, Actors

  Lawrence Grobel, Al Pacino (2008). “Al Pacino”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain't bad. You can meet people on it.

  Al Pacino

  People, Red, Carpet

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• I was never very happy with performing; it didn't turn me on much.

  Al Pacino

  Performing, Very Happy, Turn Me

  Lawrence Grobel, Al Pacino (2008). “Al Pacino”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• I used to think of myself as a comedian. I've always admired comedians. Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There's a liberation in that.

  Al Pacino

  Thinking, People, Comedian

  Lawrence Grobel, Al Pacino (2008). “Al Pacino”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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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.

  Al Pacino

  Real, Ideas, Way

  Source: www.rawkblog.net

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• The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers.

  Al Pacino

  Athlete, Emotional, Suffering

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• When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff, or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?

  Al Pacino

  Mean, Opportunity, Trying

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

  Al Pacino

  Artist, Thinking, Play

  Source: www.rawkblog.net

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• When you're reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call "taking up with a writer," something happens.

  Al Pacino

  Reading, Play, Happens

  "New Again: Al Pacino". Interview with Colleen Kelsey, Julian Schnabel, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2012.

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