I did say to her that I thought that she had a real gift, and it’s a good idea to know that. It’s always good to go with your gift.
AL PACINOI didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,
More Al Pacino Quotes
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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I don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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I’m much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I’ve always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me.
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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’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.
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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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I do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it’s hard for me to discern. I don’t like what it’s doing to the world.
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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sometimes it’s better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn’t know
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Take a look at Israel’s history and you would know who the terrorist is.
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I thought, what’s going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director.
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