I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
AL PACINOThere are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, “Hey, I have to stop this silliness.”
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You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That’s magical. He’s done a great thing.
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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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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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I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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After looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
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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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They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
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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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It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
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Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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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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