I’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
AL PACINOIf I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I’m in it, whatever that means.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
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I’ve never cared for guns. In fact, when I did ‘Scent of a Woman’ I had to learn how to assemble one.
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To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
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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 need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring.
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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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Failure’s relative. I’ve always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something’s not right about that. It’s how you treat failure, too.
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So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for ‘Scent of a Woman.’ It was a new feeling. I’d never felt it.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
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A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.
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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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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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