Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
AL PACINOWe start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
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The play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There’s no doubt in my mind about it.
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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don’t believe me when I tell them. That’s how I saw myself, in comedy.
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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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 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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An actor basically likes to be asked to do something, no matter what position he’s in. It feels more natural. Sitting and waiting is more gratifying.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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I want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
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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 love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
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