Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
AL PACINOI was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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I’ve never cared for guns. In fact, when I did ‘Scent of a Woman’ I had to learn how to assemble one.
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Early on in my career, I remember running – fleeing – to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
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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’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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I believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
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That’s where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that’s what I like. I’ve always felt that’s what I would like to do.
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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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Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
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I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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