I personally think if you’re given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way.
AL PACINOI am a dancer. But I don’t think I would be on ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ mainly because I would be too shy.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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Failure’s relative. I’ve always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something’s not right about that. It’s how you treat failure, too.
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I do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it’s hard for me to discern. I don’t like what it’s doing to the world.
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The interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.
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When [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and they would start talking to me, asking me for my autograph and she just went under the table.
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[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we’re not going to talk about that.
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I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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It turned out that time doesn’t heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly
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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I’m in it, whatever that means.
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Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
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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 don’t care if it’s a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath – whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
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