The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
AL PACINOIt was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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 go all over the world, I have access to many things, many people, many places and it’s wonderful. But now I’m at a point where.
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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 don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp.
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
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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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Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you’re going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
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Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.
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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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