My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
AL PACINOYou take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That’s magical. He’s done a great thing.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you’re going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
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I don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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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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I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
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There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, “Hey, I have to stop this silliness.”
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You want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you’re with is also your friend.
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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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Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.
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Either I act or I die.
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I can see [ talent or curiosity for acting] in my oldest daughter [Julia Marie Pacino]. I don’t know how long she’ll run away from it, but it’s there in her.
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