You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
AL PACINOIt’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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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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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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There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And I think it also helps if you are a dreamer. I had my dreams all right. And that is something no one can ever take away.
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I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
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I used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.
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The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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It turned out that time doesn’t heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly
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I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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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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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there’s a movie.
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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work.
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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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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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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When I was doing ‘Scarface,’ I remember being in love at that time. One of the few times in my life. And I was so glad it was at that time.
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