You’re going to get a sense of what the hell’s going on there. Boy, you’ll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.
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More Al Pacino Quotes
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You want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you’re with is also your friend.
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Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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[Ocean’s Thirteen] is a great group, and it was an opportunity to work with Steven Soderbergh. But mainly? It was shot in L.A. and I want to be next to my kids.
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I don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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Read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.
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Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions.
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My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
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Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
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I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
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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.
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All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
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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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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff.
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