All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
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More Al Pacino Quotes
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My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
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[Marlon] Brando’s a giant on every level. When he acts it’s as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
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Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
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Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
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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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The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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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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I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it’s probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.
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When I was doing ‘Scarface,’ I remember being in love at that time. One of the few times in my life. And I was so glad it was at that time.
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There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
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Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
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There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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I didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,
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My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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I want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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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’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
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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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Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
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I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
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