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.
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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I would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
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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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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.
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My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
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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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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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It would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.
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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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