Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
AL PACINOA lot of acting is private time.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
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That’s where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that’s what I like. I’ve always felt that’s what I would like to do.
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Grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
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You’re in a conversation and everybody’s agreeing with what you’re saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.
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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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I come from the South Bronx – a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.
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I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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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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You need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring.
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If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it’s just great fodder for you. It’s wonderful source stuff that we die for.
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I’m always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.
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When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
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I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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I thought it was time to show some of it, to show some of my feelings about things and what I preferred at the time. I prefer them still but not to the extent I did at the time.
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I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
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