I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
AL PACINOI 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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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 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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There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And I think it also helps if you are a dreamer. I had my dreams all right. And that is something no one can ever take away.
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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 actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
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To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
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Many years ago, in the late ’70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire.
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I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
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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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I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
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A lot of acting is private time.
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There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
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