Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
AL PACINOIt 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I like, for instance, ‘Serpico.’ I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could – I could embody him. I could, you know.
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An actor basically likes to be asked to do something, no matter what position he’s in. It feels more natural. Sitting and waiting is more gratifying.
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Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
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I picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
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The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
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I’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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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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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
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I didn’t go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.
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Early on in my career, I remember running – fleeing – to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.
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I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there’s a movie.
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