I thought, what’s going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director.
AL PACINOWhen you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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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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When I was doing ‘Scarface,’ I remember being in love at that time. One of the few times in my life. And I was so glad it was at that time.
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I was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.
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Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don’t believe me when I tell them. That’s how I saw myself, in comedy.
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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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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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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I found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.
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I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp…Then I’d find another one.
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The interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.
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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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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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