[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.
AL PACINOActors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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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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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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There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
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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…
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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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Without coffee something’s missing
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I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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It turned out that time doesn’t heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly
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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
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There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There’s a liberation in that.
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