Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
AL PACINOCertainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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The play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There’s no doubt in my mind about it.
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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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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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I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
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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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A lot of acting is private time.
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Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
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I want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, “The Sea Gull,” when was 14 in the Bronx.
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My best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That’s my mantra.
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In America most everybody who’s Italian is half Italian. Except me. I’m all Italian. I’m mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.
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Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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