You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
AL PACINOIt used to worry me what people said about me. I’m learning not to worry as much.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it’s hard for me to discern. I don’t like what it’s doing to the world.
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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 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.
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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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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
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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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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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That’s the way to live – around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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I can see [ talent or curiosity for acting] in my oldest daughter [Julia Marie Pacino]. I don’t know how long she’ll run away from it, but it’s there in her.
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And I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.
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Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you’re going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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