I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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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[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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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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All I am is what I’m going after.
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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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Any project that I find encouraging that isn’t attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.
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Grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there’s a movie.
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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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There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
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I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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So that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It’s an extraordinary thing. It’s wild turf up there.
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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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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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Either I act or I die.
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It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work.
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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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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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