You 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.
AL PACINOIs it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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 destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
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I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp…Then I’d find another one.
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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 don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work.
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I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
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So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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Grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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