When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That’s par for the course.When you’re a movie star, it went with it. It’s a kind of rite of passage, socially.
AL PACINOBe careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don’t sum up a man’s life in one moment.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.
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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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When [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and they would start talking to me, asking me for my autograph and she just went under the table.
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Take a look at Israel’s history and you would know who the terrorist is.
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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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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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I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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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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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 hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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Failure’s relative. I’ve always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something’s not right about that. It’s how you treat failure, too.
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I personally think if you’re given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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