Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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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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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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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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[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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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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I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
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Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.
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Read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.
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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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I don’t care if it’s a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath – whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
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I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
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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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