There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
AL PACINOIt was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
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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 could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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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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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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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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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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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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Shakespeare is one of the reasons I’ve stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words.
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A lot of acting is private time.
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