If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
AL PACINOShow me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
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I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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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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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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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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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.
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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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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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When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
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I never saw myself as a director. It’s certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.
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