Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
AL PACINOI thought, what’s going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There’s a liberation in that.
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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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Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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I was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner – and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.
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What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
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I’ve been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That’s the stuff my dreams are made of.
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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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I’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
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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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I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
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You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
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Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don’t sum up a man’s life in one moment.
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for ‘Scent of a Woman.’ It was a new feeling. I’d never felt it.
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Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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