There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
AL PACINOI wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
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I don’t like what’s going on in Iraq, naturally. I’m part of a large majority of people who don’t, but I do not know the whole story.
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[Marlon] Brando’s a giant on every level. When he acts it’s as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
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It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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I’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.
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Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.
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I’ve never cared for guns. In fact, when I did ‘Scent of a Woman’ I had to learn how to assemble one.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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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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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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When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That’s par for the course.When you’re a movie star, it went with it. It’s a kind of rite of passage, socially.
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And 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.
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