My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
AL PACINOThe camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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We’re charlatans in a way, we’re magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style.
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Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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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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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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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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The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
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Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
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Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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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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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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