“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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[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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Early on in my career, I remember running – fleeing – to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
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I haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.
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When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That’s par for the course.When you’re a movie star, it went with it. It’s a kind of rite of passage, socially.
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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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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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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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I don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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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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They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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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.
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