If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it’s just great fodder for you. It’s wonderful source stuff that we die for.
AL PACINOI don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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I picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
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The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
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There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, “Hey, I have to stop this silliness.”
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Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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Grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
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My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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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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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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All I am is what I’m going after.
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[Oscar Wilde’s Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that’s why I guess it’s semi-autobiographical.
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I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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In America most everybody who’s Italian is half Italian. Except me. I’m all Italian. I’m mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.
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