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.
AL PACINOActually, 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And I think it also helps if you are a dreamer. I had my dreams all right. And that is something no one can ever take away.
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I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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I’m much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I’ve always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me.
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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The play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There’s no doubt in my mind about it.
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I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.
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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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Failure’s relative. I’ve always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something’s not right about that. It’s how you treat failure, too.
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Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
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I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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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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Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
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I’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
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It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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