What kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
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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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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I used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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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.
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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I want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
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Either I act or I die.
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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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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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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
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Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
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