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.
AL PACINOThat’s where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that’s what I like. I’ve always felt that’s what I would like to do.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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I would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
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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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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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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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I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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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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I don’t like what’s going on in Iraq, naturally. I’m part of a large majority of people who don’t, but I do not know the whole story.
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I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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When I was doing ‘Scarface,’ I remember being in love at that time. One of the few times in my life. And I was so glad it was at that time.
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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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