I destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
AL PACINOI’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
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I do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it’s hard for me to discern. I don’t like what it’s doing to the world.
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I thought it was time to show some of it, to show some of my feelings about things and what I preferred at the time. I prefer them still but not to the extent I did at the time.
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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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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
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Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.
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The story of Salome, the play itself and what it is, what it contains, and my journey as an actor, as a director, as a filmmaker, as a person struggling with whatever I’m struggling with.
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The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
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It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
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A lot of acting is private time.
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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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