It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.
AL PACINOMy best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That’s my mantra.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
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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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My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
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I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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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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Without coffee something’s missing
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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.
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All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
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The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
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And I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.
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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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