The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
AL PACINOI didn’t want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it’s OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
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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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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
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I don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
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The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
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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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I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
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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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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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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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