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.
AL PACINOI hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I can see [ talent or curiosity for acting] in my oldest daughter [Julia Marie Pacino]. I don’t know how long she’ll run away from it, but it’s there in her.
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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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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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You’re in a conversation and everybody’s agreeing with what you’re saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.
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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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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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Any project that I find encouraging that isn’t attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.
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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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I destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
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All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
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They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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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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The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
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I don’t like what’s going on in Iraq, naturally. I’m part of a large majority of people who don’t, but I do not know the whole story.
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