There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, “Hey, I have to stop this silliness.”
AL PACINOI try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there’s a movie.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
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Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
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I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That’s par for the course.When you’re a movie star, it went with it. It’s a kind of rite of passage, socially.
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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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I’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.
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I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
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To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
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I don’t like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight…
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The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
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One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, “The Sea Gull,” when was 14 in the Bronx.
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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I’m always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.
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A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
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I did say to her that I thought that she had a real gift, and it’s a good idea to know that. It’s always good to go with your gift.
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