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.
AL PACINOLarry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
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I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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I was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.
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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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sometimes it’s better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn’t know
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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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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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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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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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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That’s par for the course.When you’re a movie star, it went with it. It’s a kind of rite of passage, socially.
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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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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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