I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
AL PACINOI just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
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[Oscar Wilde’s Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that’s why I guess it’s semi-autobiographical.
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I want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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That’s the way to live – around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
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And I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.
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Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
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I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
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Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
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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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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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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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That’s where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that’s what I like. I’ve always felt that’s what I would like to do.
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