Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
AL PACINOLarry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
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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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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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The thing is doing it, that’s what it’s all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It’s a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself.
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Shakespeare is one of the reasons I’ve stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words.
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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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It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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I don’t care if it’s a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath – whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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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 only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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