The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
AL PACINOI was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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I was watching Revolution, and the things I did in that picture, holy smokes! I can’t believe I did that, it’s like another person. It’s the thought of it, it’s just appalling to me.
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I do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it’s hard for me to discern. I don’t like what it’s doing to the world.
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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.
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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
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Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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When I was doing ‘Scarface,’ I remember being in love at that time. One of the few times in my life. And I was so glad it was at that time.
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Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
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