I 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.
AL PACINOI’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don’t believe me when I tell them. That’s how I saw myself, in comedy.
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[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
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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.
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It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
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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 want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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I don’t care if it’s a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath – whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
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You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That’s magical. He’s done a great thing.
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My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
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The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work.
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It used to worry me what people said about me. I’m learning not to worry as much.
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When I was doing ‘Scarface,’ I remember being in love at that time. One of the few times in my life. And I was so glad it was at that time.
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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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