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.
AL PACINOCertainly 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, “The Sea Gull,” when was 14 in the Bronx.
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I believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
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I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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I didn’t want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it’s OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.
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I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
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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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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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We’re charlatans in a way, we’re magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style.
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I’m much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I’ve always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me.
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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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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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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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I am a dancer. But I don’t think I would be on ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ mainly because I would be too shy.
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I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
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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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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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I don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.
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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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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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They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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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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