Al Pacino Quotes, Careers Quotes, Vision Quotes

Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you're going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.

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I'm an actor, and everything about me - the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world - has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.

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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn't good enough. I 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.

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Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.

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I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.

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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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On any given Sunday you're gonna win or you're gonna lose. The point is -- can you win or lose like a man?

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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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Vanity: my favorite sin.

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It used to worry me what people said about me. I'm learning not to worry as much. Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don 't take objection to it, because that's the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.

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[Marlon] Brando's a giant on every level. When he acts it's as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.

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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'm always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain't bad. You can meet people on it.

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I'm naturally shy but I've done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.

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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you, so that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It's an extraordinary thing. It's wild turf up there.

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Actors are always outsiders. It's necessary to be able to interpret - and that gets distorted when you become famous.

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My best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That's my mantra.

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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day. I don't care if it's a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath - whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.

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Any project that I find encouraging that isn't attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.

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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. And I didn't think about the material as much. But sometimes I've thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn't work out.

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