We were doing Scarface many years ago…and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean.
AL PACINOThat’s where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that’s what I like. I’ve always felt that’s what I would like to do.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
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When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
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I’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff.
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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
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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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I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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[Oscar Wilde’s Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that’s why I guess it’s semi-autobiographical.
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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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