Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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More Al Pacino Quotes
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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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I hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
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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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My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
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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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My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
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I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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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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You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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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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That’s the way to live – around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
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I thought, what’s going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director.
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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’m always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.
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People are always asking me to do Shakespeare – at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It’s like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It’s great therapy.
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Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
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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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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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Any project that I find encouraging that isn’t attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.
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I don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
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“What was that, George, what were you doing?” And he said, “They were sleeping.” You’re always trying to catch them.
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At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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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 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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