I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
AL PACINOYou’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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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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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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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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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I don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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The story of Salome, the play itself and what it is, what it contains, and my journey as an actor, as a director, as a filmmaker, as a person struggling with whatever I’m struggling with.
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The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
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“What was that, George, what were you doing?” And he said, “They were sleeping.” You’re always trying to catch them.
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If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it’s just great fodder for you. It’s wonderful source stuff that we die for.
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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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I can see [ talent or curiosity for acting] in my oldest daughter [Julia Marie Pacino]. I don’t know how long she’ll run away from it, but it’s there in her.
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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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There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
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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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I didn’t go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.
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I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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I’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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It used to worry me what people said about me. I’m learning not to worry as much.
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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I do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it’s hard for me to discern. I don’t like what it’s doing to the world.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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I was watching Revolution, and the things I did in that picture, holy smokes! I can’t believe I did that, it’s like another person. It’s the thought of it, it’s just appalling to me.
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We were doing Scarface many years ago…and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean.
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