I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
AL PACINOI 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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 could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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I don’t care if it’s a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath – whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
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After looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
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I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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I haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.
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My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.
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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.
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I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there’s a movie.
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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
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