I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there’s a movie.
AL PACINOI was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.
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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Forget 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.
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I like, for instance, ‘Serpico.’ I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could – I could embody him. I could, you know.
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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.
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To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
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The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
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A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.
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The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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I don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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I’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
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