I used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
AL PACINOI don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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When [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and they would start talking to me, asking me for my autograph and she just went under the table.
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Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
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I’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
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I didn’t go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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The play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There’s no doubt in my mind about it.
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Many years ago, in the late ’70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire.
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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
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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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Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
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Either I act or I die.
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