Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
AL PACINOI destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
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There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, “Hey, I have to stop this silliness.”
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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The interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I’m in it, whatever that means.
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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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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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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
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At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
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I thought, what’s going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director.
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Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
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