I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
AL PACINOThere has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I’m in it, whatever that means.
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The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
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After looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
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You’re going to get a sense of what the hell’s going on there. Boy, you’ll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.
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You need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring.
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Grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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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 more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
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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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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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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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You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.
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Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
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