I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
AL PACINOAnd 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.
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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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You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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A lot of acting is private time.
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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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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The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
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I destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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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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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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Any project that I find encouraging that isn’t attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.
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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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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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