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.
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I didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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.
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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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It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for ‘Scent of a Woman.’ It was a new feeling. I’d never felt it.
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They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
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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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At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
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My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
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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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I was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner – and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.
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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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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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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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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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