I didn’t go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.
AL PACINOOr try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
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I like women who can cook. That’s first. Love is very important, but you’ve got to have a friend first.
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It would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.
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I haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.
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The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
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All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
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You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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We were doing Scarface many years ago…and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean.
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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 do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it’s hard for me to discern. I don’t like what it’s doing to the world.
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Read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.
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You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
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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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I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
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There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And I think it also helps if you are a dreamer. I had my dreams all right. And that is something no one can ever take away.
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