There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
AL PACINOI do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.
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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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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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Either I act or I die.
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I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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I’ve been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That’s the stuff my dreams are made of.
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I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
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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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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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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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I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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I’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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