And I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.
AL PACINOThey cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
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When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff.
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I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
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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 had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.
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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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I don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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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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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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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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I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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