I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
AL PACINOI 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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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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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There’s a liberation in that.
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I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
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It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.
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It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
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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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I like women who can cook. That’s first. Love is very important, but you’ve got to have a friend first.
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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I go all over the world, I have access to many things, many people, many places and it’s wonderful. But now I’m at a point where.
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There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.
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