It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
AL PACINOWhen I was younger, there was the sex thing. That’s par for the course.When you’re a movie star, it went with it. It’s a kind of rite of passage, socially.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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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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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It’s a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It’s sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.
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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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The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
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Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
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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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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
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My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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It would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.
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I thought, what’s going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director.
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I don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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