The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
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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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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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
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I’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
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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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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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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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Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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Read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, “The Sea Gull,” when was 14 in the Bronx.
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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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