We’re charlatans in a way, we’re magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style.
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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I thought it was time to show some of it, to show some of my feelings about things and what I preferred at the time. I prefer them still but not to the extent I did at the time.
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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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In America most everybody who’s Italian is half Italian. Except me. I’m all Italian. I’m mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.
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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
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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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The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.
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Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
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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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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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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
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I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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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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