The thing is doing it, that’s what it’s all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It’s a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself.
AL PACINOI’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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sometimes it’s better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn’t know
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I did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they’ll pay attention long enough to consume it.
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It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
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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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What kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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I don’t care if it’s a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath – whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
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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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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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[Oscar Wilde’s Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that’s why I guess it’s semi-autobiographical.
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I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
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I hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
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