I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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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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What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
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The story of Salome, the play itself and what it is, what it contains, and my journey as an actor, as a director, as a filmmaker, as a person struggling with whatever I’m struggling with.
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My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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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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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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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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If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it’s just great fodder for you. It’s wonderful source stuff that we die for.
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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What kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
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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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