I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
AL PACINOPlaying a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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I’m much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I’ve always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me.
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Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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Read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.
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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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We were doing Scarface many years ago…and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean.
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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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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we’re not going to talk about that.
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I don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
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When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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