I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
AL PACINOI destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
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I did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they’ll pay attention long enough to consume it.
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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don’t believe me when I tell them. That’s how I saw myself, in comedy.
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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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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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I 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.
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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.
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The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
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I thought it was time to show some of it, to show some of my feelings about things and what I preferred at the time. I prefer them still but not to the extent I did at the time.
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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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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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