What kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
AL PACINOMy best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That’s my mantra.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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The play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There’s no doubt in my mind about it.
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[Marlon] Brando’s a giant on every level. When he acts it’s as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
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Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
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When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That’s par for the course.When you’re a movie star, it went with it. It’s a kind of rite of passage, socially.
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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 had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.
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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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You’re in a conversation and everybody’s agreeing with what you’re saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.
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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.
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My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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I don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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If something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
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