There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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.
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There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, “Hey, I have to stop this silliness.”
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Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don’t believe me when I tell them. That’s how I saw myself, in comedy.
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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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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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Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.
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What 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.
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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I once asked my oldest daughter [Julia Marie] if she thought about changing her name in school and she said, “No, I’m a Pacino. That’s my name.”
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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“What was that, George, what were you doing?” And he said, “They were sleeping.” You’re always trying to catch them.
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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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