I don’t like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight…
AL PACINOI 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there’s a movie.
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When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
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Without coffee something’s missing
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I’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.
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When I was doing ‘Scarface,’ I remember being in love at that time. One of the few times in my life. And I was so glad it was at that time.
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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for ‘Scent of a Woman.’ It was a new feeling. I’d never felt it.
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My best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That’s my mantra.
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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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After looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
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The interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.
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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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