Vanity: my favorite sin.
AL PACINOI learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.
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I didn’t want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it’s OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.
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When I was doing ‘Scarface,’ I remember being in love at that time. One of the few times in my life. And I was so glad it was at that time.
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[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
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I personally think if you’re given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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I can see [ talent or curiosity for acting] in my oldest daughter [Julia Marie Pacino]. I don’t know how long she’ll run away from it, but it’s there in her.
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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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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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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
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