I picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
AL PACINOI’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
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My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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You’re going to get a sense of what the hell’s going on there. Boy, you’ll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.
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I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work.
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It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
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The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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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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[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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It’s very evocative; it’s like a first cut because you hear ‘She walked to the door,’ and you visualize all these things. ‘She opens the door’ . . . because you read the stage directions, too.
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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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