You need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring.
AL PACINOI destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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I did say to her that I thought that she had a real gift, and it’s a good idea to know that. It’s always good to go with your gift.
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff.
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I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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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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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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“What was that, George, what were you doing?” And he said, “They were sleeping.” You’re always trying to catch them.
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When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
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You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
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