I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
AL PACINOEither we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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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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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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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That’s magical. He’s done a great thing.
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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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Early on in my career, I remember running – fleeing – to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.
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Many years ago, in the late ’70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire.
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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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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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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
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