I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
AL PACINOPlaying a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.
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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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I thought, what’s going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director.
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My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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Early on in my career, I remember running – fleeing – to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.
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The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work.
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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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Failure’s relative. I’ve always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something’s not right about that. It’s how you treat failure, too.
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To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
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I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
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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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