There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
AL PACINOMy first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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You want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you’re with is also your friend.
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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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I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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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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Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.
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My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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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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There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
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And I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.
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When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
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I hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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