I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
AL PACINOI destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp…Then I’d find another one.
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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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You want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you’re with is also your friend.
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Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.
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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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It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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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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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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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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