To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
AL PACINOThere 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.”
More Al Pacino Quotes
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sometimes it’s better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn’t know
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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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A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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I haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.
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I like women who can cook. That’s first. Love is very important, but you’ve got to have a friend first.
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We’re charlatans in a way, we’re magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style.
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The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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I don’t like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight…
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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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We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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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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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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