I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
AL PACINOIt 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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I’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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Shakespeare is one of the reasons I’ve stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words.
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Any project that I find encouraging that isn’t attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.
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Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It’s a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It’s sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.
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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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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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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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