If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
AL PACINOI’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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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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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 did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they’ll pay attention long enough to consume it.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
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Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
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I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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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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Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
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