The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
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More Al Pacino Quotes
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The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work.
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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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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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My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.
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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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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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“What was that, George, what were you doing?” And he said, “They were sleeping.” You’re always trying to catch them.
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Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
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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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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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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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I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
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