I did say to her that I thought that she had a real gift, and it’s a good idea to know that. It’s always good to go with your gift.
AL PACINOI used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp…Then I’d find another one.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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[Marlon] Brando’s a giant on every level. When he acts it’s as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
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I’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
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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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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 don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.
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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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You’re going to get a sense of what the hell’s going on there. Boy, you’ll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.
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People are always asking me to do Shakespeare – at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It’s like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It’s great therapy.
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I want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
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If something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
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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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