The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
AL PACINOIt would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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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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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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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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Any project that I find encouraging that isn’t attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.
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I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
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I like, for instance, ‘Serpico.’ I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could – I could embody him. I could, you know.
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That’s the way to live – around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
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I’m much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I’ve always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me.
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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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That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
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If something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
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I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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I’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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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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