I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp.
AL PACINOIt’s very evocative; it’s like a first cut because you hear ‘She walked to the door,’ and you visualize all these things. ‘She opens the door’ . . . because you read the stage directions, too.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
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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 story of Salome, the play itself and what it is, what it contains, and my journey as an actor, as a director, as a filmmaker, as a person struggling with whatever I’m struggling with.
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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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You need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring.
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I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
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It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
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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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[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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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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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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The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
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Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
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