To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
AL PACINOThe reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.
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My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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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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I didn’t want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it’s OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.
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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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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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Many years ago, in the late ’70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire.
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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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I can see [ talent or curiosity for acting] in my oldest daughter [Julia Marie Pacino]. I don’t know how long she’ll run away from it, but it’s there in her.
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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 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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