Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
AL PACINOSometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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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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You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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The thing is doing it, that’s what it’s all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It’s a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself.
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We were doing Scarface many years ago…and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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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 wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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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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[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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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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