I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
AL PACINOI 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
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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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[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
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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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My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp…Then I’d find another one.
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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
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Read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.
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That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
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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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Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
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All I am is what I’m going after.
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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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I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
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