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.
AL PACINOEverything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
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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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On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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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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My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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[Marlon] Brando’s a giant on every level. When he acts it’s as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
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Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
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The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.
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And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
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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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I personally think if you’re given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way.
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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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