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.
AL PACINOI don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
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I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.
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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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sometimes it’s better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn’t know
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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
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I’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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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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It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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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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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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I don’t like what’s going on in Iraq, naturally. I’m part of a large majority of people who don’t, but I do not know the whole story.
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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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