When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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You need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring.
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I destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
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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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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp…Then I’d find another one.
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Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don’t sum up a man’s life in one moment.
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Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
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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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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
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The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
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[Ocean’s Thirteen] is a great group, and it was an opportunity to work with Steven Soderbergh. But mainly? It was shot in L.A. and I want to be next to my kids.
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