I destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
AL PACINOThere are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I like, for instance, ‘Serpico.’ I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could – I could embody him. I could, you know.
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
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A lot of acting is private time.
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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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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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The story of Salome, the play itself and what it is, what it contains, and my journey as an actor, as a director, as a filmmaker, as a person struggling with whatever I’m struggling with.
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People are always asking me to do Shakespeare – at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It’s like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It’s great therapy.
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You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That’s magical. He’s done a great thing.
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sometimes it’s better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn’t know
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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don’t believe me when I tell them. That’s how I saw myself, in comedy.
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The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
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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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It’s very evocative; it’s like a first cut because you hear ‘She walked to the door,’ and you visualize all these things. ‘She opens the door’ . . . because you read the stage directions, too.
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