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.
AL PACINOThe 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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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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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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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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I am a dancer. But I don’t think I would be on ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ mainly because I would be too shy.
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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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I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
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If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
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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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When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That’s par for the course.When you’re a movie star, it went with it. It’s a kind of rite of passage, socially.
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I hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
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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 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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Take a look at Israel’s history and you would know who the terrorist is.
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