Did 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.
AL PACINOThey cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I thought it was time to show some of it, to show some of my feelings about things and what I preferred at the time. I prefer them still but not to the extent I did at the time.
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I was watching Revolution, and the things I did in that picture, holy smokes! I can’t believe I did that, it’s like another person. It’s the thought of it, it’s just appalling to me.
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I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp.
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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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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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I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
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If something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
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I go all over the world, I have access to many things, many people, many places and it’s wonderful. But now I’m at a point where.
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I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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When [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and they would start talking to me, asking me for my autograph and she just went under the table.
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And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
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