You want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you’re with is also your friend.
AL PACINOI could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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I don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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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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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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I want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
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When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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