I’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.
AL PACINOIt’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
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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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[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we’re not going to talk about that.
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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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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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I found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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The story of Salome, the play itself and what it is, what it contains, and my journey as an actor, as a director, as a filmmaker, as a person struggling with whatever I’m struggling with.
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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I was watching Revolution, and the things I did in that picture, holy smokes! I can’t believe I did that, it’s like another person. It’s the thought of it, it’s just appalling to me.
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On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
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I picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
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Either I act or I die.
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