I hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
AL PACINODid you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don’t believe me when I tell them. That’s how I saw myself, in comedy.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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I didn’t want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it’s OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.
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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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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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I’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
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I was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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I didn’t go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.
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I personally think if you’re given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way.
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I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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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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