I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
AL PACINOThe truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.
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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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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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Early on in my career, I remember running – fleeing – to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.
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You need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring.
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That’s the way to live – around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
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There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, “Hey, I have to stop this silliness.”
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You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.
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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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I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
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Take a look at Israel’s history and you would know who the terrorist is.
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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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I go all over the world, I have access to many things, many people, many places and it’s wonderful. But now I’m at a point where.
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Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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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…
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