People are always asking me to do Shakespeare – at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It’s like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It’s great therapy.
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More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp.
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I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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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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I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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Grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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The interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.
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The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
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I picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
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When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
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