My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
AL PACINO“What was that, George, what were you doing?” And he said, “They were sleeping.” You’re always trying to catch them.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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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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I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
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I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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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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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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[Oscar Wilde’s Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that’s why I guess it’s semi-autobiographical.
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I’m an actor, and everything about me – the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world – has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.
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I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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