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.
AL PACINOYou 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff.
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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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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I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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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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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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The play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There’s no doubt in my mind about it.
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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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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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I would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
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The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
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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.
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I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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I’m an actor, and everything about me – the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world – has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.
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