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.
AL PACINOI personally think if you’re given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I didn’t go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.
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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 don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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Early on in my career, I remember running – fleeing – to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.
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I’m much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I’ve always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me.
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Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
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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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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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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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That’s where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that’s what I like. I’ve always felt that’s what I would like to do.
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My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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