To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
AL PACINOThe literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
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They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
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They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
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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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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.
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Without coffee something’s missing
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That’s where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that’s what I like. I’ve always felt that’s what I would like to do.
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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 guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
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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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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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I don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.
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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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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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