All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
AL PACINOIt’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Early on in my career, I remember running – fleeing – to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.
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I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
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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.
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The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work.
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Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
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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.
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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I thought, what’s going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director.
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You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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