There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
AL PACINOI 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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[Ocean’s Thirteen] is a great group, and it was an opportunity to work with Steven Soderbergh. But mainly? It was shot in L.A. and I want to be next to my kids.
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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.
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“What was that, George, what were you doing?” And he said, “They were sleeping.” You’re always trying to catch them.
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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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I go all over the world, I have access to many things, many people, many places and it’s wonderful. But now I’m at a point where.
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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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An actor basically likes to be asked to do something, no matter what position he’s in. It feels more natural. Sitting and waiting is more gratifying.
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I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
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If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I’m in it, whatever that means.
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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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