Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
AL PACINOI used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
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The thing is doing it, that’s what it’s all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It’s a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself.
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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’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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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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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.
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You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.
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I was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.
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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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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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The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
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