My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
AL PACINOThey cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
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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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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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I’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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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 would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
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Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
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So that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It’s an extraordinary thing. It’s wild turf up there.
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We’re charlatans in a way, we’re magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style.
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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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Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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