You need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring.
AL PACINO[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we’re not going to talk about that.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
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A lot of acting is private time.
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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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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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It used to worry me what people said about me. I’m learning not to worry as much.
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At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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It turned out that time doesn’t heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly
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I destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
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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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So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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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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I’m an actor, and everything about me – the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world – has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.
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That’s where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that’s what I like. I’ve always felt that’s what I would like to do.
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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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.
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