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.
AL PACINOThat’s the way to live – around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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When [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and they would start talking to me, asking me for my autograph and she just went under the table.
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Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That’s magical. He’s done a great thing.
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Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
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I’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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I hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
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All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
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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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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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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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Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
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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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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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I don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.
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What kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
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I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
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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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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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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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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.
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They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
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You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.
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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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