I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.
AL PACINOYou 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.
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I’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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You’re in a conversation and everybody’s agreeing with what you’re saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.
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[Oscar Wilde’s Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that’s why I guess it’s semi-autobiographical.
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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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 used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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I don’t care if it’s a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath – whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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