I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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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Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
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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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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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I 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.
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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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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I’m in it, whatever that means.
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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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Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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In America most everybody who’s Italian is half Italian. Except me. I’m all Italian. I’m mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.
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I want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
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And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
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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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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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Either I act or I die.
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I come from the South Bronx – a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.
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If something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
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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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sometimes it’s better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn’t know
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