Failure’s relative. I’ve always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something’s not right about that. It’s how you treat failure, too.
AL PACINOI was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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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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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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And I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.
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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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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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Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.
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It’s very evocative; it’s like a first cut because you hear ‘She walked to the door,’ and you visualize all these things. ‘She opens the door’ . . . because you read the stage directions, too.
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Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
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My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.
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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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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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