What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
AL PACINOI 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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A lot of acting is private time.
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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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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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We were doing Scarface many years ago…and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean.
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To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
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I hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
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There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
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My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
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All I am is what I’m going after.
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I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
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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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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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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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