I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
AL PACINOI’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
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I thought it was time to show some of it, to show some of my feelings about things and what I preferred at the time. I prefer them still but not to the extent I did at the time.
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Many years ago, in the late ’70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire.
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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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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 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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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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What kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
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I’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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