The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
AL PACINOIt’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
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I picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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It’s very evocative; it’s like a first cut because you hear ‘She walked to the door,’ and you visualize all these things. ‘She opens the door’ . . . because you read the stage directions, too.
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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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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.
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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.
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My best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That’s my mantra.
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We were doing Scarface many years ago…and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean.
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I’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
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I believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
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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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