I don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
AL PACINOSometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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My best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That’s my mantra.
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I’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
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I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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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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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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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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Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.
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Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
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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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I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.
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Failure’s relative. I’ve always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something’s not right about that. It’s how you treat failure, too.
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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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It turned out that time doesn’t heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly
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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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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.
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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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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
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I go all over the world, I have access to many things, many people, many places and it’s wonderful. But now I’m at a point where.
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I picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
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