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.
AL PACINOI do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
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I haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.
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Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, “The Sea Gull,” when was 14 in the Bronx.
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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We were doing Scarface many years ago…and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean.
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I don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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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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You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
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I believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
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