[Ocean’s Thirteen] is a great group, and it was an opportunity to work with Steven Soderbergh. But mainly? It was shot in L.A. and I want to be next to my kids.
AL PACINOYou’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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I am a dancer. But I don’t think I would be on ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ mainly because I would be too shy.
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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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The interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.
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You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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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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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There’s a liberation in that.
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Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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[Oscar Wilde’s Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that’s why I guess it’s semi-autobiographical.
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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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I don’t care if it’s a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath – whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
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I used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
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