It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
AL PACINOAll I am is what I’m going after.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,
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Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.
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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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It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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I was watching Revolution, and the things I did in that picture, holy smokes! I can’t believe I did that, it’s like another person. It’s the thought of it, it’s just appalling to me.
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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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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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I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
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All I am is what I’m going after.
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