I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
AL PACINOI don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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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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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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We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
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I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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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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I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
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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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I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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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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You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That’s magical. He’s done a great thing.
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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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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