Without coffee something’s missing
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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[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we’re not going to talk about that.
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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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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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I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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I like, for instance, ‘Serpico.’ I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could – I could embody him. I could, you know.
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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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There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
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You need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring.
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it’s just great fodder for you. It’s wonderful source stuff that we die for.
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The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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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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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
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We were doing Scarface many years ago…and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean.
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