Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don’t believe me when I tell them. That’s how I saw myself, in comedy.
AL PACINOTake a look at Israel’s history and you would know who the terrorist is.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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And I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.
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I come from the South Bronx – a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.
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To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
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The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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I’m an actor, and everything about me – the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world – has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.
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I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
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I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
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The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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I’m always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.
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[Ocean’s Thirteen] is a great group, and it was an opportunity to work with Steven Soderbergh. But mainly? It was shot in L.A. and I want to be next to my kids.
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I didn’t go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.
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