If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I’m in it, whatever that means.
AL PACINOThe hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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All I am is what I’m going after.
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Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.
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We’re charlatans in a way, we’re magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style.
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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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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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There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, “Hey, I have to stop this silliness.”
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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
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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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To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
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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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Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
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