Al Pacino Quotes

There is no happiness. There is only concentration.

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You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.

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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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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.

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My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.

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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day. I don't care if it's a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath - whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.

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I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.

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I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.

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I personally think if you're given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way, the play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There's no doubt in my mind about it.

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I didn't want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally - Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least, 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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My weaknesses... I wish I could come up with something. I'd probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they're the same thing.

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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.

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The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires. When you're acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.

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We live in a world where the more you're working, the more things you do. It's a workaday world.

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The interesting thing about this is I don't know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about. I'm sensing something and I'm going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted - Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.

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I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.

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When [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and they would start talking to me, asking me for my autograph and she just went under the table.

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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 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. 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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I didn't go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.

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