The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
AL PACINOI was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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It turned out that time doesn’t heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly
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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
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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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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
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I didn’t want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it’s OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.
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That’s where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that’s what I like. I’ve always felt that’s what I would like to do.
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