I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
AL PACINOI 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…
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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I am a dancer. But I don’t think I would be on ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ mainly because I would be too shy.
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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.
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[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we’re not going to talk about that.
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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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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
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Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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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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If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I’m in it, whatever that means.
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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, “The Sea Gull,” when was 14 in the Bronx.
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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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