I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
AL PACINOI was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
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It used to worry me what people said about me. I’m learning not to worry as much.
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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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It’s very evocative; it’s like a first cut because you hear ‘She walked to the door,’ and you visualize all these things. ‘She opens the door’ . . . because you read the stage directions, too.
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Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions.
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Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don’t believe me when I tell them. That’s how I saw myself, in comedy.
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“What was that, George, what were you doing?” And he said, “They were sleeping.” You’re always trying to catch them.
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My best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That’s my mantra.
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I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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I’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.
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I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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I come from the South Bronx – a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.
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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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The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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I’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
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I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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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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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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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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Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
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I personally think if you’re given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way.
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