Vanity is my favourite sin.
AL PACINOWe live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it’s just great fodder for you. It’s wonderful source stuff that we die for.
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I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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You’re going to get a sense of what the hell’s going on there. Boy, you’ll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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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.
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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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I don’t like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight…
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That’s where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that’s what I like. I’ve always felt that’s what I would like to do.
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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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Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
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I destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
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