It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
AL PACINOWe live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I thought, what’s going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director.
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I don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.
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I’m an actor, and everything about me – the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world – has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.
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The story of Salome, the play itself and what it is, what it contains, and my journey as an actor, as a director, as a filmmaker, as a person struggling with whatever I’m struggling with.
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I once asked my oldest daughter [Julia Marie] if she thought about changing her name in school and she said, “No, I’m a Pacino. That’s my name.”
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I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp…Then I’d find another one.
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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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I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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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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The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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I used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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