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.
AL PACINOFailure’s relative. I’ve always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something’s not right about that. It’s how you treat failure, too.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.
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I personally think if you’re given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way.
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Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
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My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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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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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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I go all over the world, I have access to many things, many people, many places and it’s wonderful. But now I’m at a point where.
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[Marlon] Brando’s a giant on every level. When he acts it’s as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
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That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
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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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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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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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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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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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It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
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