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.
AL PACINOWithout coffee something’s missing
More Al Pacino Quotes
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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
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In America most everybody who’s Italian is half Italian. Except me. I’m all Italian. I’m mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.
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It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
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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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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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You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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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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I didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,
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I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
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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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When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
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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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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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