A lot of acting is private time.
AL PACINOI am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
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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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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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And I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.
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To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
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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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I didn’t go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.
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[Ocean’s Thirteen] is a great group, and it was an opportunity to work with Steven Soderbergh. But mainly? It was shot in L.A. and I want to be next to my kids.
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I’ve been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That’s the stuff my dreams are made of.
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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I’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
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And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
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