My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
AL PACINOIt 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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I personally think if you’re given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way.
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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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After looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
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The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
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I once asked my oldest daughter [Julia Marie] if she thought about changing her name in school and she said, “No, I’m a Pacino. That’s my name.”
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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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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 hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
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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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I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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