Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
AL PACINOI’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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All I am is what I’m going after.
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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I don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
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My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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I didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,
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Failure’s relative. I’ve always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something’s not right about that. It’s how you treat failure, too.
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Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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I was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner – and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.
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Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
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