Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
AL PACINOYou need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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If something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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I thought, what’s going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director.
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I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
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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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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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It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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I destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
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The interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.
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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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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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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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