Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
AL PACINOI destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
More Al Pacino Quotes
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My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
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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.
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I’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
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Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It’s a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It’s sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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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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There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.
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I can see [ talent or curiosity for acting] in my oldest daughter [Julia Marie Pacino]. I don’t know how long she’ll run away from it, but it’s there in her.
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You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.
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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
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It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
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I go all over the world, I have access to many things, many people, many places and it’s wonderful. But now I’m at a point where.
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My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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