Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
AL PACINOI’m always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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I like, for instance, ‘Serpico.’ I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could – I could embody him. I could, you know.
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
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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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Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
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I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
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After looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
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The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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People are always asking me to do Shakespeare – at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It’s like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It’s great therapy.
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I found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.
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