Vanity: my favorite sin.
AL PACINOI like women who can cook. That’s first. Love is very important, but you’ve got to have a friend first.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
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I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.
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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
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One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, “The Sea Gull,” when was 14 in the Bronx.
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The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
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I’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.
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At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
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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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And I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.
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You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.
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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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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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Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
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