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.
AL PACINOResponsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
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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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Without coffee something’s missing
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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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I am a dancer. But I don’t think I would be on ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ mainly because I would be too shy.
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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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I was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.
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We’re charlatans in a way, we’re magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style.
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You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.
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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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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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