You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
AL PACINOCertainly 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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It would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.
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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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I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
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I’m always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.
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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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[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
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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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[Ocean’s Thirteen] is a great group, and it was an opportunity to work with Steven Soderbergh. But mainly? It was shot in L.A. and I want to be next to my kids.
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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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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Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
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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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