I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
AL PACINOI’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.
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Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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I hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
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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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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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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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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
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A lot of acting is private time.
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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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I like, for instance, ‘Serpico.’ I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could – I could embody him. I could, you know.
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Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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