If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I’m in it, whatever that means.
AL PACINOYou sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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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.
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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.
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Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
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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.
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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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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I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp.
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
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I was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.
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It turned out that time doesn’t heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly
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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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