I don’t like what’s going on in Iraq, naturally. I’m part of a large majority of people who don’t, but I do not know the whole story.
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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I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
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You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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I come from the South Bronx – a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.
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So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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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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An 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.
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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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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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I can see [ talent or curiosity for acting] in my oldest daughter [Julia Marie Pacino]. I don’t know how long she’ll run away from it, but it’s there in her.
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What kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
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