They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
AL PACINOTo be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
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Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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I destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
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All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
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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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I’m an actor, and everything about me – the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world – has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.
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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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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
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I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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I was watching Revolution, and the things I did in that picture, holy smokes! I can’t believe I did that, it’s like another person. It’s the thought of it, it’s just appalling to me.
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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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I come from the South Bronx – a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.
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After looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
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There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And I think it also helps if you are a dreamer. I had my dreams all right. And that is something no one can ever take away.
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It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.
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Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
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The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work.
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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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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it’s just great fodder for you. It’s wonderful source stuff that we die for.
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Either I act or I die.
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I hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
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