Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don’t sum up a man’s life in one moment.
AL PACINOTo be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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[Ocean’s Thirteen] is a great group, and it was an opportunity to work with Steven Soderbergh. But mainly? It was shot in L.A. and I want to be next to my kids.
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I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp…Then I’d find another one.
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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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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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When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff.
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I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp.
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Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
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I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
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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.
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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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I did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they’ll pay attention long enough to consume it.
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The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
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