You want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you’re with is also your friend.
AL PACINOActing is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I’m much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I’ve always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me.
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My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
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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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I don’t care if it’s a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath – whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
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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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The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work.
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Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
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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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The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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I believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
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