The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
AL PACINOSo I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I didn’t want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it’s OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.
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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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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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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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I am a dancer. But I don’t think I would be on ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ mainly because I would be too shy.
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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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I was watching Revolution, and the things I did in that picture, holy smokes! I can’t believe I did that, it’s like another person. It’s the thought of it, it’s just appalling to me.
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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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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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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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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Any project that I find encouraging that isn’t attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.
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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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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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I don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.
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