All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
AL PACINOLee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
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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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I’ve been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That’s the stuff my dreams are made of.
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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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I used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
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I’ve never cared for guns. In fact, when I did ‘Scent of a Woman’ I had to learn how to assemble one.
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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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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work.
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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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It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
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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.
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When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
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