Al Pacino Quotes

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  I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn’t work that way. So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness.

  Al Pacino

  Topics in God, Work

  Tags in Humour, Forgiveness

• You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.

  Al Pacino

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  Tags in Books, Reading

• I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.

  Al Pacino

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• I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.

  Al Pacino

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  Tags in Actor, Stars

• I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.

  Al Pacino

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  Tags in Characters, Tried

• Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions. And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.

  Al Pacino

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  Tags in Directions, Narrator

• 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.

  Al Pacino

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  Tags in Comedy, Saw

• At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things. My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.

  Al Pacino

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  Tags in Rejection, Audition

• All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be, I am a dancer. But I don’t think I would be on ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ mainly because I would be too shy.

  Al Pacino

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  Tags in Dancing, Trying

• The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times. A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.

  Al Pacino

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• I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great. You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.

  Al Pacino

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• I like, for instance, ‘Serpico.’ I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could – I could embody him. I could, you know, I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.

  Al Pacino

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• I spent lunchtime in a grave during the filming of ‘Bloody Mama.’ When you’re younger, you feel that’s what you need to do to help you stay in character. When you get older, you become more confident and less intense about it – and you can achieve the same effect.

  Al Pacino

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• I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.

  Al Pacino

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• I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope. Early on in my career, I remember running – fleeing – to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.

  Al Pacino

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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.

  Al Pacino

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• I’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.

  Al Pacino

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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. 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 Pacino

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• It would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.

  Al Pacino

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• It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.

  Al Pacino

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Al Pacino (39)

Birth:	25th April, 1940
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Director, Producer, Screenwriter

About

Alfredo James Pacino is an American film and stage actor and director. He is famous for playing mobsters, including Michael Corleone in The Godfather trilogy and Tony Montana in Scarface, though he has also appeared several times on the other side of the law as a police officer, a detective and a lawyer. His role as Frank Slade in Scent of a Woman won him the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1992 after receiving seven previous Oscar nominations, one of them being in the same year. He made his feature film debut in the 1969 film Me, Natalie in a minor supporting role, before playing the leading role in the 1971 drama The Panic in Needle Park. In addition to a career in film, he has also enjoyed a successful career on stage, winning Tony Awards for Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie? and The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel. A longtime fan of Shakespeare, he made his directorial debut with Looking for Richard, a quasi-documentary on the play Richard III. Pacino has received numerous lifetime achievement awards, including one from the American Film Institute. He is a method actor, taught mainly by Lee Strasberg and Charles Laughton at the Actors Studio in New York. Although he has never married, Pacino has had several relationships with actresses and has three children.

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