I didn’t go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.
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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You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
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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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I used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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You want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you’re with is also your friend.
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Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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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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I haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.
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I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
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You’re going to get a sense of what the hell’s going on there. Boy, you’ll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.
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I want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
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There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
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Many years ago, in the late ’70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire.
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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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