Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
AL PACINOForget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you’re going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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[Marlon] Brando’s a giant on every level. When he acts it’s as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
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There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work.
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
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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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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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Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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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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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
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