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 PACINOMy own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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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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The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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I didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,
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I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp…Then I’d find another one.
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At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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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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“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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