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.
AL PACINOI don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
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That’s the way to live – around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
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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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I picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
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I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
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It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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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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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.
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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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