There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
AL PACINOI’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
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The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
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There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
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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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I don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
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You need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring.
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When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That’s par for the course.When you’re a movie star, it went with it. It’s a kind of rite of passage, socially.
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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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Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
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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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I don’t care if it’s a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath – whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
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