It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
AL PACINOJamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It’s a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It’s sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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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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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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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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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
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I thought it was time to show some of it, to show some of my feelings about things and what I preferred at the time. I prefer them still but not to the extent I did at the time.
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There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.
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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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Read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.
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You want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you’re with is also your friend.
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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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I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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Grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
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Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
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