It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
AL PACINOThere has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
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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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A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
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I’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
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I didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,
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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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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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[Ocean’s Thirteen] is a great group, and it was an opportunity to work with Steven Soderbergh. But mainly? It was shot in L.A. and I want to be next to my kids.
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They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
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[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
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I am a dancer. But I don’t think I would be on ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ mainly because I would be too shy.
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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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