There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
AL PACINOA lot of acting is private time.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.
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Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
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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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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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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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Any project that I find encouraging that isn’t attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.
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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 don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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Many years ago, in the late ’70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire.
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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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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 want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
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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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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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