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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More Al Pacino Quotes
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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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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Take a look at Israel’s history and you would know who the terrorist is.
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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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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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I was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.
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Without coffee something’s missing
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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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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 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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My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
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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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I’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
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Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
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I’m always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.
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I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it’s probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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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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To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
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The thing is doing it, that’s what it’s all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It’s a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself.
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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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When [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and they would start talking to me, asking me for my autograph and she just went under the table.
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