It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
AL PACINOThe actor becomes an emotional athlete.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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A lot of acting is private time.
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You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
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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.
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It’s very evocative; it’s like a first cut because you hear ‘She walked to the door,’ and you visualize all these things. ‘She opens the door’ . . . because you read the stage directions, too.
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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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There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
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I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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I’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.
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To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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I can see [ talent or curiosity for acting] in my oldest daughter [Julia Marie Pacino]. I don’t know how long she’ll run away from it, but it’s there in her.
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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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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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