I want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
AL PACINOYou’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
More Al Pacino Quotes
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It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.
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I didn’t want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it’s OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.
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An actor basically likes to be asked to do something, no matter what position he’s in. It feels more natural. Sitting and waiting is more gratifying.
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I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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After looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
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We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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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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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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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 found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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