I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
AL PACINOPretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That’s magical. He’s done a great thing.
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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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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When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff.
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[Oscar Wilde’s Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that’s why I guess it’s semi-autobiographical.
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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
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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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That’s the way to live – around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
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I’m much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I’ve always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me.
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.
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After looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
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I’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
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