I like women who can cook. That’s first. Love is very important, but you’ve got to have a friend first.
AL PACINOMy movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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I don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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I never saw myself as a director. It’s certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.
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There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
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Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don’t sum up a man’s life in one moment.
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It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
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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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A lot of acting is private time.
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There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it’s probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.
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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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I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp.
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I come from the South Bronx – a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.
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