Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
AL PACINOOr try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
More Al Pacino Quotes
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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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I do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it’s hard for me to discern. I don’t like what it’s doing to the world.
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I was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
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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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I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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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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[Marlon] Brando’s a giant on every level. When he acts it’s as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
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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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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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I didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,
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