Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
AL PACINOWomen have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I don’t care if it’s a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath – whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
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Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.
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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’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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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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Take a look at Israel’s history and you would know who the terrorist is.
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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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After looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
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That’s where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that’s what I like. I’ve always felt that’s what I would like to do.
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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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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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I’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
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That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
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