It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
AL PACINOAfter looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.
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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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So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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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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If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I’m in it, whatever that means.
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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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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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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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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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Early on in my career, I remember running – fleeing – to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.
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A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
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I’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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