I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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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If something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
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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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I hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
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And I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.
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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.
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I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
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To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
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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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I didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,
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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don’t sum up a man’s life in one moment.
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Without coffee something’s missing
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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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