It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
AL PACINOThere are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
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You want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you’re with is also your friend.
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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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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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The interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.
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All I am is what I’m going after.
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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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It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
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I don’t like what’s going on in Iraq, naturally. I’m part of a large majority of people who don’t, but I do not know the whole story.
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I destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
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I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
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Shakespeare is one of the reasons I’ve stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words.
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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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I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
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