An actor basically likes to be asked to do something, no matter what position he’s in. It feels more natural. Sitting and waiting is more gratifying.
AL PACINOWhen you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
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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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Take a look at Israel’s history and you would know who the terrorist is.
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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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At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
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Failure’s relative. I’ve always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something’s not right about that. It’s how you treat failure, too.
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Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
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I personally think if you’re given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way.
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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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I destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
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[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we’re not going to talk about that.
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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