My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
AL PACINOI am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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I did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they’ll pay attention long enough to consume it.
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The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
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I didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,
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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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I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp…Then I’d find another one.
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Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
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People are always asking me to do Shakespeare – at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It’s like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It’s great therapy.
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I 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.
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There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
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A lot of acting is private time.
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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.
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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
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When [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and they would start talking to me, asking me for my autograph and she just went under the table.
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