There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.
AL PACINOThe actor becomes an emotional athlete.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it’s hard for me to discern. I don’t like what it’s doing to the world.
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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 life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.
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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
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I was watching Revolution, and the things I did in that picture, holy smokes! I can’t believe I did that, it’s like another person. It’s the thought of it, it’s just appalling to me.
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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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 have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
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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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I hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
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I don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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