If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
AL PACINOI’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.
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My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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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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A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
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I found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.
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It would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.
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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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Either I act or I die.
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I like women who can cook. That’s first. Love is very important, but you’ve got to have a friend first.
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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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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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Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.
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I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.
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