Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
AL PACINOAny project that I find encouraging that isn’t attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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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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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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Many years ago, in the late ’70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire.
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When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
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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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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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I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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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 turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
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I don’t like what’s going on in Iraq, naturally. I’m part of a large majority of people who don’t, but I do not know the whole story.
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