Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
AL PACINOThere are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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I’ve been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That’s the stuff my dreams are made of.
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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
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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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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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sometimes it’s better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn’t know
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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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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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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 like women who can cook. That’s first. Love is very important, but you’ve got to have a friend first.
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You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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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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My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
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I haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.
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