You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.
AL PACINOYou need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
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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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Either I act or I die.
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I like women who can cook. That’s first. Love is very important, but you’ve got to have a friend first.
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Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don’t sum up a man’s life in one moment.
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Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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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’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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When [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and they would start talking to me, asking me for my autograph and she just went under the table.
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You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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Grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
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I didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,
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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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