I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
AL PACINOI learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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After looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
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I’m much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I’ve always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me.
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I’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.
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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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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
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Either I act or I die.
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At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
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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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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
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I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.
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To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
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