I didn’t go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.
AL PACINOThey made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
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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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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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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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To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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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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When [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and they would start talking to me, asking me for my autograph and she just went under the table.
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You’re going to get a sense of what the hell’s going on there. Boy, you’ll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.
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There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, “Hey, I have to stop this silliness.”
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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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I never saw myself as a director. It’s certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.
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