I was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner – and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.
AL PACINOTheir minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There’s a liberation in that.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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I thought it was time to show some of it, to show some of my feelings about things and what I preferred at the time. I prefer them still but not to the extent I did at the time.
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All I am is what I’m going after.
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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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Without coffee something’s missing
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There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And I think it also helps if you are a dreamer. I had my dreams all right. And that is something no one can ever take away.
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
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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 would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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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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My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
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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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