I don’t like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight…
AL PACINOI’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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 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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It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.
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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
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I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
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I do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it’s hard for me to discern. I don’t like what it’s doing to the world.
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The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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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 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 love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
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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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I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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