I hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
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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Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
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Either I act or I die.
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They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for ‘Scent of a Woman.’ It was a new feeling. I’d never felt it.
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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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I like women who can cook. That’s first. Love is very important, but you’ve got to have a friend first.
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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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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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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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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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I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
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Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.
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I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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