I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
AL PACINOI picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
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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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I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
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Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
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I’m an actor, and everything about me – the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world – has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.
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I was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner – and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.
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We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.
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I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it’s probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.
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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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A lot of acting is private time.
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Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don’t believe me when I tell them. That’s how I saw myself, in comedy.
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