I used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
AL PACINOYou’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I’ve never cared for guns. In fact, when I did ‘Scent of a Woman’ I had to learn how to assemble one.
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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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It’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.
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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 just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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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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My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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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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All I am is what I’m going after.
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When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
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I like, for instance, ‘Serpico.’ I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could – I could embody him. I could, you know.
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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That’s par for the course.When you’re a movie star, it went with it. It’s a kind of rite of passage, socially.
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