Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
AL PACINOI had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
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If something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
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I haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.
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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
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I’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
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I don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.
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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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I don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.
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