Al Pacino Quotes
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One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, "The Sea Gull," when was 14 in the Bronx.
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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn't good enough. 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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The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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Off-Off-Broadway is absolutely necessary. It doesn't have to be sanctioned by the state, subsidized or anything. The plank and the passion is what it's about.
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I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate.
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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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"To be or not to be is" [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend. I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it's probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.
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The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
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I want to be a great actor someday, and I've decided there's no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
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The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work. And I didn't think about the material as much. But sometimes I've thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn't work out.
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I come from the South Bronx - a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.
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Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would've wanted to play 10 years ago, I don't want to play now.
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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 love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
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My movies are always being played on television, I'm very well known and all that stuff - I go all over the world, I have access to many things, many people, many places and it's wonderful. But now I'm at a point where...I thought it was time to show some of it, to show some of my feelings about things and what I preferred at the time. I prefer them still but not to the extent I did at the time.
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They say we die twice - once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
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I'm always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain't bad. You can meet people on it.
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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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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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After looking at Salomaybe, I don't know who the hell the real me is. I think it's closest now to the real me because for one thing, I'm used to this.
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Vanity: my favorite sin.