The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
AL PACINOIf you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it’s just great fodder for you. It’s wonderful source stuff that we die for.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
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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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It used to worry me what people said about me. I’m learning not to worry as much.
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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.
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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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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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The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
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A lot of acting is private time.
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My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
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