I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
AL PACINOI wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner – and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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I’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
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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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To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
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I haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.
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I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.
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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
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At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
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I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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You need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring.
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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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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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