The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
AL PACINOI come from the South Bronx – a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
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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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Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
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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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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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I haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions.
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You need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring.
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