I hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
AL PACINOFreedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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There 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.”
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Failure’s relative. I’ve always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something’s not right about that. It’s how you treat failure, too.
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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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I thought, what’s going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director.
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[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we’re not going to talk about that.
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A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.
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Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There’s a liberation in that.
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You’re going to get a sense of what the hell’s going on there. Boy, you’ll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.
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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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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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If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it’s just great fodder for you. It’s wonderful source stuff that we die for.
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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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I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
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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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I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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