I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
AL PACINOI’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
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On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
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Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
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At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
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You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That’s magical. He’s done a great thing.
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Many years ago, in the late ’70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire.
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When I was doing ‘Scarface,’ I remember being in love at that time. One of the few times in my life. And I was so glad it was at that time.
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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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I didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,
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Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It’s a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It’s sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.
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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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Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don’t believe me when I tell them. That’s how I saw myself, in comedy.
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When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That’s par for the course.When you’re a movie star, it went with it. It’s a kind of rite of passage, socially.
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