I like, for instance, ‘Serpico.’ I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could – I could embody him. I could, you know.
AL PACINOWhen 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.
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I was watching Revolution, and the things I did in that picture, holy smokes! I can’t believe I did that, it’s like another person. It’s the thought of it, it’s just appalling to me.
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I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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I didn’t go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.
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And I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.
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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 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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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…
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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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