Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
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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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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I picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
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Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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Grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
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I do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it’s hard for me to discern. I don’t like what it’s doing to the world.
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I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.
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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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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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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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I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
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I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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I once asked my oldest daughter [Julia Marie] if she thought about changing her name in school and she said, “No, I’m a Pacino. That’s my name.”
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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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I like women who can cook. That’s first. Love is very important, but you’ve got to have a friend first.
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I’m much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I’ve always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me.
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The story of Salome, the play itself and what it is, what it contains, and my journey as an actor, as a director, as a filmmaker, as a person struggling with whatever I’m struggling with.
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Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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I didn’t go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.
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I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
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