My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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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You’re in a conversation and everybody’s agreeing with what you’re saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.
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Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.
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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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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’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.
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Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
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I thought, what’s going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director.
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Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
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Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
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I’m much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I’ve always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me.
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My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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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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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
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