The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
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More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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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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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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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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There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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[Marlon] Brando’s a giant on every level. When he acts it’s as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
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People are always asking me to do Shakespeare – at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It’s like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It’s great therapy.
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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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I’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.
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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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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.
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I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
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