Either I act or I die.
AL PACINOMy early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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[Oscar Wilde’s Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that’s why I guess it’s semi-autobiographical.
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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
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I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.
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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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I destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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If something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
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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’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.
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Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There’s a liberation in that.
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