I like, for instance, ‘Serpico.’ I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could – I could embody him. I could, you know.
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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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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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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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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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[Ocean’s Thirteen] is a great group, and it was an opportunity to work with Steven Soderbergh. But mainly? It was shot in L.A. and I want to be next to my kids.
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My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
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When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff.
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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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Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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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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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’m always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.
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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
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