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.
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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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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That’s where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that’s what I like. I’ve always felt that’s what I would like to do.
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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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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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I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
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I found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.
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There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, “Hey, I have to stop this silliness.”
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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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We were doing Scarface many years ago…and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean.
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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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I do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it’s hard for me to discern. I don’t like what it’s doing to the world.
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