If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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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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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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.
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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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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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People are always asking me to do Shakespeare – at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It’s like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It’s great therapy.
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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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I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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I found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.
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Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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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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In America most everybody who’s Italian is half Italian. Except me. I’m all Italian. I’m mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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