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.
AL PACINOI wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
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I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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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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If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
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Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There’s a liberation in that.
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I found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.
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I thought it was time to show some of it, to show some of my feelings about things and what I preferred at the time. I prefer them still but not to the extent I did at the time.
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Read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.
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At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
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sometimes it’s better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn’t know
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I can see [ talent or curiosity for acting] in my oldest daughter [Julia Marie Pacino]. I don’t know how long she’ll run away from it, but it’s there in her.
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