There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
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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I’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
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All I am is what I’m going after.
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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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A lot of acting is private time.
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The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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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 want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
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I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
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The thing is doing it, that’s what it’s all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It’s a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself.
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Either I act or I die.
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I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.
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You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.
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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.
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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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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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To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
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And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
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That’s the way to live – around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
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The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
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They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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