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Al Pacino

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Al Pacino - Quotes

1. "My grandfather, who raised me, and was the most, and um my Grandad died before anything happened to me, any kind of success or whatever happened to me in my career, so I felt a kind of a warmth toward that character."
   - Al Pacino

2. "The only movie I wished I could have done was Lenny."
   - Al Pacino

3. "I'd like to be remembered as the only man who lived to be 250 years old!"
   - Al Pacino

4. "It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart."
   - Al Pacino

5. "My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness. "
   - Al Pacino

6. "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."
   - Al Pacino

7. "We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day. I don't care if it's a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath - whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head."
   - Al Pacino

8. "The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful--my personal life suffers."
   - Al Pacino

9. "I work so much from instinct and the unconscious. That's when I feel I'm most liberated as a performer."
   - Al Pacino

10. "Acting gives you some kind of exaltation, it deeply affects your soul, your thoughts, and maybe your body, too. Acting creates anguish and questions. You can't live with it, but you can't live without."
    - Al Pacino

11. "It's wonderful when the appetite comes. What the actor has to do is always have an appetite. And that's part of the technique and part of what you learn is how to have that appetite. You have a need or desire to say something or do something, because every night you've got to go out there and look for the appetite."
    - Al Pacino

12. "I have many Italian friends, I love Italian food, my girlfriend is half Italian, my daughter is Italian, and in order to feel good I have to go to Italy once in a while. All this despite the fact that I was raised in the Bronx, with only a few Italians around."
    - Al Pacino