I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
AL PACINOI didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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Either I act or I die.
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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
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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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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.
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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff.
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A lot of acting is private time.
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I found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.
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People are always asking me to do Shakespeare – at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It’s like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It’s great therapy.
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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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You’re in a conversation and everybody’s agreeing with what you’re saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.
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