I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
AL PACINOI’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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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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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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[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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All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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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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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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I used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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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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I thought, what’s going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director.
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Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
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