"You need some insecurity if you're an actor. It keeps the pot boiling."
— Al Pacino
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You need some insecurity if you're an actor. It keeps the pot boiling.
About this quote
Pacino has made this counterintuitive argument in interviews about what sustains a long acting career. Rather than treating self-doubt as an obstacle, he frames it as a necessary condition: the uncertainty that makes an actor search more deeply for truth in a performance. He studied this dynamic at the Actors Studio in New York, where emotional vulnerability was treated not as weakness but as the central instrument of the craft.
Source
Interview