I found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.
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More Al Pacino Quotes
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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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I’m always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.
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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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I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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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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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
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Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
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A lot of acting is private time.
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My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we’re not going to talk about that.
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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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I like women who can cook. That’s first. Love is very important, but you’ve got to have a friend first.
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My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.
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We were doing Scarface many years ago…and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean.
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You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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I didn’t go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.
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I am a dancer. But I don’t think I would be on ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ mainly because I would be too shy.
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I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
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[Marlon] Brando’s a giant on every level. When he acts it’s as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
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Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions.
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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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