To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
AL PACINOYou need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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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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I’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
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I want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
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I used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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My best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That’s my mantra.
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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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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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The story of Salome, the play itself and what it is, what it contains, and my journey as an actor, as a director, as a filmmaker, as a person struggling with whatever I’m struggling with.
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I’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
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Grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
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