It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
AL PACINOThe thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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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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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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You need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring.
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I’m always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.
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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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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
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Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
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Many years ago, in the late ’70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire.
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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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At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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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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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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