You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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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I thought, what’s going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director.
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The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
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My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you’re going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
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When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That’s par for the course.When you’re a movie star, it went with it. It’s a kind of rite of passage, socially.
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Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It’s a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It’s sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.
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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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I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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I’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.
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When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
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I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there’s a movie.
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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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