I didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,
AL PACINOIt turned out that time doesn’t heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly
More Al Pacino Quotes
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A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
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They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
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I was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.
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I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
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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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[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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There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And I think it also helps if you are a dreamer. I had my dreams all right. And that is something no one can ever take away.
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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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I don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
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I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.
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If something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
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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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