I hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
AL PACINOI don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work.
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There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
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I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
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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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I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
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I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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I used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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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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