All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
AL PACINOThe 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp…Then I’d find another one.
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It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.
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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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[Oscar Wilde’s Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that’s why I guess it’s semi-autobiographical.
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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.
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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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I don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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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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In America most everybody who’s Italian is half Italian. Except me. I’m all Italian. I’m mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.
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To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
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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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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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The thing is doing it, that’s what it’s all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It’s a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself.
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