I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
AL PACINOAny project that I find encouraging that isn’t attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
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I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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I did say to her that I thought that she had a real gift, and it’s a good idea to know that. It’s always good to go with your gift.
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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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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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I believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff.
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I don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.
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