I don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.
AL PACINOI wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.
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You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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I’m much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I’ve always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me.
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I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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I’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
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To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
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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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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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