I don’t like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight…
AL PACINOThere are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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[Ocean’s Thirteen] is a great group, and it was an opportunity to work with Steven Soderbergh. But mainly? It was shot in L.A. and I want to be next to my kids.
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I am a dancer. But I don’t think I would be on ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ mainly because I would be too shy.
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My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
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At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
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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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We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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I don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
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