What kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
AL PACINOI 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
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I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp.
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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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A lot of acting is private time.
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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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Early on in my career, I remember running – fleeing – to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.
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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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[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we’re not going to talk about that.
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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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I am a dancer. But I don’t think I would be on ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ mainly because I would be too shy.
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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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