I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
AL PACINOYou 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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Without coffee something’s missing
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All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
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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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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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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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And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
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I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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I once asked my oldest daughter [Julia Marie] if she thought about changing her name in school and she said, “No, I’m a Pacino. That’s my name.”
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If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it’s just great fodder for you. It’s wonderful source stuff that we die for.
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It would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.
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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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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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