Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you’re going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
AL PACINOThey made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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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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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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I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
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I would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
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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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I didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,
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You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That’s magical. He’s done a great thing.
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I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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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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My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
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