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…
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 just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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I was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner – and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.
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I’m always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.
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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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At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
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I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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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 would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
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The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
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A lot of acting is private time.
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One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, “The Sea Gull,” when was 14 in the Bronx.
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It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.
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