My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
AL PACINOMy dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
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I did say to her that I thought that she had a real gift, and it’s a good idea to know that. It’s always good to go with your gift.
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When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That’s par for the course.When you’re a movie star, it went with it. It’s a kind of rite of passage, socially.
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A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
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When I was doing ‘Scarface,’ I remember being in love at that time. One of the few times in my life. And I was so glad it was at that time.
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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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There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, “Hey, I have to stop this silliness.”
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I found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.
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That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
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It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.
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I destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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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 actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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