At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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More Al Pacino Quotes
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I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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I like women who can cook. That’s first. Love is very important, but you’ve got to have a friend first.
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The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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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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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
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I was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner – and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.
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If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I’m in it, whatever that means.
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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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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 turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
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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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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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