It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
AL PACINOBe careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don’t sum up a man’s life in one moment.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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You want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you’re with is also your friend.
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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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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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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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I found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.
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The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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Either I act or I die.
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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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I never saw myself as a director. It’s certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.
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I’m much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I’ve always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me.
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I’ve never cared for guns. In fact, when I did ‘Scent of a Woman’ I had to learn how to assemble one.
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I thought, what’s going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director.
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