There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, “Hey, I have to stop this silliness.”
AL PACINOYou could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.
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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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I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
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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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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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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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Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
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Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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That’s where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that’s what I like. I’ve always felt that’s what I would like to do.
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Failure’s relative. I’ve always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something’s not right about that. It’s how you treat failure, too.
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I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
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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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