On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
AL PACINOI love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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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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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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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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I’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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My best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That’s my mantra.
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My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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“What was that, George, what were you doing?” And he said, “They were sleeping.” You’re always trying to catch them.
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The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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I’m an actor, and everything about me – the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world – has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.
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I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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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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