It would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.
AL PACINOSo I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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What kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
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I don’t like what’s going on in Iraq, naturally. I’m part of a large majority of people who don’t, but I do not know the whole story.
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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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I thought it was time to show some of it, to show some of my feelings about things and what I preferred at the time. I prefer them still but not to the extent I did at the time.
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When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That’s par for the course.When you’re a movie star, it went with it. It’s a kind of rite of passage, socially.
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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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That’s where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that’s what I like. I’ve always felt that’s what I would like to do.
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I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
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There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
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I destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.
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