I’m always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.
AL PACINOActing is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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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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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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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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I’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.
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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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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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When [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and they would start talking to me, asking me for my autograph and she just went under the table.
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So that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It’s an extraordinary thing. It’s wild turf up there.
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If something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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You’re going to get a sense of what the hell’s going on there. Boy, you’ll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.
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I did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they’ll pay attention long enough to consume it.
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I like, for instance, ‘Serpico.’ I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could – I could embody him. I could, you know.
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