Either I act or I die.
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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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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I come from the South Bronx – a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.
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If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it’s just great fodder for you. It’s wonderful source stuff that we die for.
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Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.
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The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
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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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My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
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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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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for ‘Scent of a Woman.’ It was a new feeling. I’d never felt it.
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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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