Failure’s relative. I’ve always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something’s not right about that. It’s how you treat failure, too.
AL PACINOPlaying a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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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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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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It turned out that time doesn’t heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly
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I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
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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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There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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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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My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
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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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