Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.
AL PACINOI 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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 wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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I was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner – and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.
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The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.
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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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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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Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.
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You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
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The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
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My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.
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