You need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring.
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More Al Pacino Quotes
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Shakespeare is one of the reasons I’ve stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words.
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I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
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Many years ago, in the late ’70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire.
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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I like women who can cook. That’s first. Love is very important, but you’ve got to have a friend first.
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When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
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There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
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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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After looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
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I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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I did say to her that I thought that she had a real gift, and it’s a good idea to know that. It’s always good to go with your gift.
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I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
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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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If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
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