Grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
AL PACINOI never saw myself as a director. It’s certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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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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The thing is doing it, that’s what it’s all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It’s a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself.
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I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work.
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You’re going to get a sense of what the hell’s going on there. Boy, you’ll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.
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Take a look at Israel’s history and you would know who the terrorist is.
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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
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At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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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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