I am a dancer. But I don’t think I would be on ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ mainly because I would be too shy.
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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The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
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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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I don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.
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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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The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.
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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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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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Failure’s relative. I’ve always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something’s not right about that. It’s how you treat failure, too.
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You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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I don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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[Marlon] Brando’s a giant on every level. When he acts it’s as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
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There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And I think it also helps if you are a dreamer. I had my dreams all right. And that is something no one can ever take away.
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I believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
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My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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