I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
AL PACINOI just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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I didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
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I found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.
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They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
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I don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.
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I’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.
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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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Many years ago, in the late ’70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire.
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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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If something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
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Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
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My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
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It would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.
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