We were doing Scarface many years ago…and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean.
AL PACINOI learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.
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I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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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.
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A lot of acting is private time.
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I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.
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I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
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On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
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I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
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I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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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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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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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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