You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That’s magical. He’s done a great thing.
AL PACINOAn actor basically likes to be asked to do something, no matter what position he’s in. It feels more natural. Sitting and waiting is more gratifying.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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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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[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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Early on in my career, I remember running – fleeing – to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.
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If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
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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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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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When [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and they would start talking to me, asking me for my autograph and she just went under the table.
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And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
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I used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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My best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That’s my mantra.
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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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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
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What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
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