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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More Al Pacino Quotes
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A lot of acting is private time.
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There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
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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 destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
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I thought it was time to show some of it, to show some of my feelings about things and what I preferred at the time. I prefer them still but not to the extent I did at the time.
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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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I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there’s a movie.
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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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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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In America most everybody who’s Italian is half Italian. Except me. I’m all Italian. I’m mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.
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Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
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I didn’t go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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