You want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you’re with is also your friend.
AL PACINOI’ve been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That’s the stuff my dreams are made of.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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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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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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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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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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I didn’t want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it’s OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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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 think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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I hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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Any project that I find encouraging that isn’t attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.
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