I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
AL PACINOAfter 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
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Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don’t believe me when I tell them. That’s how I saw myself, in comedy.
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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp…Then I’d find another one.
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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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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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I like, for instance, ‘Serpico.’ I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could – I could embody him. I could, you know.
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What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
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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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It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
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