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.
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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[Ocean’s Thirteen] is a great group, and it was an opportunity to work with Steven Soderbergh. But mainly? It was shot in L.A. and I want to be next to my kids.
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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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Read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.
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The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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You’re going to get a sense of what the hell’s going on there. Boy, you’ll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.
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I’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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I’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.
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Failure’s relative. I’ve always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something’s not right about that. It’s how you treat failure, too.
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We were doing Scarface many years ago…and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean.
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A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.
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I hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
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I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
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