Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
AL PACINOShow me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
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There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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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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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.
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My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
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The interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.
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I picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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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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So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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I don’t like what’s going on in Iraq, naturally. I’m part of a large majority of people who don’t, but I do not know the whole story.
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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I’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
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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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