It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for ‘Scent of a Woman.’ It was a new feeling. I’d never felt it.
AL PACINOThe fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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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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All I am is what I’m going after.
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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 don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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So that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It’s an extraordinary thing. It’s wild turf up there.
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I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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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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Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
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I’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.
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I don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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