It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
AL PACINOI do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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I’ve never cared for guns. In fact, when I did ‘Scent of a Woman’ I had to learn how to assemble one.
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Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
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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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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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The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.
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We were doing Scarface many years ago…and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean.
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You want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you’re with is also your friend.
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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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Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
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My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
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What kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
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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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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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