sometimes it’s better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn’t know
AL PACINOI used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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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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Either I act or I die.
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I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.
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I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there’s a movie.
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Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
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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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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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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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Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don’t sum up a man’s life in one moment.
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
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I picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
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I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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