I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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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Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don’t sum up a man’s life in one moment.
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The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
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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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There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.
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Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
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I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.
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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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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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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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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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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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You’re in a conversation and everybody’s agreeing with what you’re saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.
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I hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
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