A lot of acting is private time.
AL PACINOWhat kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don’t sum up a man’s life in one moment.
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You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
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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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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
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I’m always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
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I’ve been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That’s the stuff my dreams are made of.
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We’re charlatans in a way, we’re magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style.
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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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I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp…Then I’d find another one.
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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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