All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
AL PACINOI 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
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I’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
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I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
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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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My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.
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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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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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Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don’t sum up a man’s life in one moment.
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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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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I come from the South Bronx – a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.
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There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
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I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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