That’s where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that’s what I like. I’ve always felt that’s what I would like to do.
AL PACINOYou want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you’re with is also your friend.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I thought it was time to show some of it, to show some of my feelings about things and what I preferred at the time. I prefer them still but not to the extent I did at the time.
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Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
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[Oscar Wilde’s Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that’s why I guess it’s semi-autobiographical.
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Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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Any project that I find encouraging that isn’t attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.
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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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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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Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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I don’t like what’s going on in Iraq, naturally. I’m part of a large majority of people who don’t, but I do not know the whole story.
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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don’t believe me when I tell them. That’s how I saw myself, in comedy.
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I’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.
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