The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
AL PACINOTo be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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[Oscar Wilde’s Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that’s why I guess it’s semi-autobiographical.
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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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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A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.
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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.
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I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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I believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
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You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That’s magical. He’s done a great thing.
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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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I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
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