It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
AL PACINOI probably write a poem every 50 years.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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 was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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I’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.
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I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There’s a liberation in that.
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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 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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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.
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I found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.
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The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
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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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Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don’t sum up a man’s life in one moment.
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I did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they’ll pay attention long enough to consume it.
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I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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