I destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
AL PACINOI don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.
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Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
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Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There’s a liberation in that.
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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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The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
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I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don’t believe me when I tell them. That’s how I saw myself, in comedy.
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I never saw myself as a director. It’s certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.
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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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Early on in my career, I remember running – fleeing – to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.
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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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It turned out that time doesn’t heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly
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Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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