All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
AL PACINOI’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, “The Sea Gull,” when was 14 in the Bronx.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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I go all over the world, I have access to many things, many people, many places and it’s wonderful. But now I’m at a point where.
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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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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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On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
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A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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We were doing Scarface many years ago…and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean.
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And I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
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The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work.
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I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp.
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When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
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