Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
AL PACINOLove is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
More Al Pacino Quotes
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There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
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I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there’s a movie.
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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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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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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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My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
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Early on in my career, I remember running – fleeing – to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.
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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’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
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Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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I am a dancer. But I don’t think I would be on ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ mainly because I would be too shy.
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I haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.
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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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Jamie 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.
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I can see [ talent or curiosity for acting] in my oldest daughter [Julia Marie Pacino]. I don’t know how long she’ll run away from it, but it’s there in her.
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The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work.
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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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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it’s probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.
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I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp.
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And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
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I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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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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[Marlon] Brando’s a giant on every level. When he acts it’s as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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