I don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
AL PACINOWhat he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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You’re in a conversation and everybody’s agreeing with what you’re saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.
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Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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[Oscar Wilde’s Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that’s why I guess it’s semi-autobiographical.
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[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we’re not going to talk about that.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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I picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
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I’m an actor, and everything about me – the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world – has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.
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I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
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When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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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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When [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and they would start talking to me, asking me for my autograph and she just went under the table.
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My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
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When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff.
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