- By Al Pacino
"I'm an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools."
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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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I like women who can cook. That's first. Love is very important, but you've got to have a friend first - you want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you're with is also your friend.
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There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, Hey, I have to stop this silliness.
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Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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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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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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I like, for instance, 'Serpico.' I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could - I could embody him. I could, you know, I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It's almost like a painter having a model to become.
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There are a couple of times I would've liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
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It turned out that time doesn't heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly
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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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