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.
AL PACINOI was watching Revolution, and the things I did in that picture, holy smokes! I can’t believe I did that, it’s like another person. It’s the thought of it, it’s just appalling to me.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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Without coffee something’s missing
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My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
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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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I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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