I 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.
AL PACINOsometimes it’s better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn’t know
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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What kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
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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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I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there’s a movie.
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I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
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I’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
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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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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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There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.
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I used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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“What was that, George, what were you doing?” And he said, “They were sleeping.” You’re always trying to catch them.
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I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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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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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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You’re going to get a sense of what the hell’s going on there. Boy, you’ll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.
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