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 PACINOIt’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
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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 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 just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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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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Grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
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Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
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The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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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 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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And I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different 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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