I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
AL PACINOOr try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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I like, for instance, ‘Serpico.’ I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could – I could embody him. I could, you know.
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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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You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
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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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I’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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I’ve been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That’s the stuff my dreams are made of.
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Grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
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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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I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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I come from the South Bronx – a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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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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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don’t sum up a man’s life in one moment.
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