I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
AL PACINOWhen [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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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I’m an actor, and everything about me – the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world – has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.
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Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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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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Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
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There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
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Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
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I want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
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Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.
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Take a look at Israel’s history and you would know who the terrorist is.
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