It used to worry me what people said about me. I’m learning not to worry as much.
AL PACINOI used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp…Then I’d find another one.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
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On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
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I thought, what’s going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director.
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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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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
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Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
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At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That’s magical. He’s done a great thing.
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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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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.
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I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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My best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That’s my mantra.
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