It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
AL PACINO[Ocean’s Thirteen] is a great group, and it was an opportunity to work with Steven Soderbergh. But mainly? It was shot in L.A. and I want to be next to my kids.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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It’s very evocative; it’s like a first cut because you hear ‘She walked to the door,’ and you visualize all these things. ‘She opens the door’ . . . because you read the stage directions, too.
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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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I used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
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I’ve been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That’s the stuff my dreams are made of.
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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 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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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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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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If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
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