I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
AL PACINOI’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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It’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.
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I used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
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My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.
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[Oscar Wilde’s Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that’s why I guess it’s semi-autobiographical.
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There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, “Hey, I have to stop this silliness.”
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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
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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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I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
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