The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
AL PACINOI did say to her that I thought that she had a real gift, and it’s a good idea to know that. It’s always good to go with your gift.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I 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.
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And I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.
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The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.
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I come from the South Bronx – a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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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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My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.
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You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
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I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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Take a look at Israel’s history and you would know who the terrorist is.
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I don’t like what’s going on in Iraq, naturally. I’m part of a large majority of people who don’t, but I do not know the whole story.
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Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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