I like women who can cook. That’s first. Love is very important, but you’ve got to have a friend first.
AL PACINOI’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
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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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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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I’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
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The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
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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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[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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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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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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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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I like, for instance, ‘Serpico.’ I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could – I could embody him. I could, you know.
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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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A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
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Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.
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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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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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I don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
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