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.
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More Al Pacino Quotes
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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I didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,
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I haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.
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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
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The interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.
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I would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
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I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
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I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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