It used to worry me what people said about me. I’m learning not to worry as much.
AL PACINOAny project that I find encouraging that isn’t attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.
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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There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.
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Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.
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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.
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I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
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I found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.
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My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
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Grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
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I do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it’s hard for me to discern. I don’t like what it’s doing to the world.
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If something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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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.
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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
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