I destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
AL PACINOI was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner – and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I like women who can cook. That’s first. Love is very important, but you’ve got to have a friend first.
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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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It used to worry me what people said about me. I’m learning not to worry as much.
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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it’s just great fodder for you. It’s wonderful source stuff that we die for.
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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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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp.
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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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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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Failure’s relative. I’ve always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something’s not right about that. It’s how you treat failure, too.
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
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I’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
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You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.
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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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