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 PACINOIt wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
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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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[Oscar Wilde’s Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that’s why I guess it’s semi-autobiographical.
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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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I hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
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I did say to her that I thought that she had a real gift, and it’s a good idea to know that. It’s always good to go with your gift.
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff.
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I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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