The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
AL PACINOI didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,
More Al Pacino Quotes
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We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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It used to worry me what people said about me. I’m learning not to worry as much.
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Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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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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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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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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The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work.
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An actor basically likes to be asked to do something, no matter what position he’s in. It feels more natural. Sitting and waiting is more gratifying.
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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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I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
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My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it’s probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.
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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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