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“I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.”
― Al Pacino

“I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians…
it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp. To me, it’s not who you love…
a man, a woman, what have you…
it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.”
― Al Pacino, Al Pacino

“You'll never be alone if you’ve got a book.”
― Al Pacino

“The World Is Yours”
― Al Pacino

“It turned out that time doesn't heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly”
― Al Pacino

“Women! What can you say? Who made 'em? God must have been a fuckin' genius. The hair... They say the hair is everything, you know. Have you ever buried your nose in a mountain of curls... just wanted to go to sleep forever? Or lips... and when they touched, yours were like... that first swallow of wine... after you just crossed the desert.”
― Al Pacino

“sometimes it's better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn't know”
― Al Pacino

“If you get all tangled up, just tango on.”
― Al Pacino in Scent of Woman

“Vanity is my favourite sin.”
― Al Pacino

“There is no happiness. There is only concentration.”
― Al Pacino

“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.”
― Al Pacino

“Attica! Attica! Attica!”
― Al Pacino

“It's easy to fool the eye, but it's hard to fool the heart.”
― Al Pacino

“Women! What can you say? Who made 'em? The hair... They say the hair is everything, you know. Have you ever buried your nose in a mountain of curls... just wanted to go to sleep forever? Or lips... and when they touched, yours were like... that first swallow of wine... after you just crossed the desert. Tits. Hoo-ah! Big ones, little ones, nipples staring right out at ya, like secret searchlights. Mmm. Legs. I don't care if they're Greek columns... or secondhand Steinways. What's between 'em... passport to heaven. I need a drink. Yes, Mr Sims, there's only two syllables in this whole wide world worth hearing: pussy. Hah! Are you listenin' to me, son? I'm givin' ya pearls here.”
― Al Pacino in Scent of Woman

“- Виждаш ли се като образ на Достоевски?
- Вече не. Преди няколко години – определено. Сега май съм по-скоро чеховски герой. Израсъл съм в компанията на мнозина различни писатели – от Балзак до Шекспир. Известно ми е, че съм продукт на улицата, лишен от систематизирано образование, но аз чета много, а руските писатели са ония, които истински ми допадат. Четенето ми спаси живота.”
― Al Pacino, Al Pacino

“Когда все получается, ты перестаешь хвастаться и доказывать это окружающим. Когда ты сильный, ты становишься спокойнее и не лезешь в драку. Когда любишь по настоящему, то перестаешь кричать об этом. Человек становится самодостаточным лишь тогда, когда он уверен в себе и знает на что способен сам, а не заставляет других поверить в это.”
― Al Pacino

“As I found out in Hollywood, sometimes not wanting something is the best way of getting it.”
― Al Pacino, Sonny Boy: A Memoir

“It makes you want to take a lesson from Marcus Aurelius, the Roman emperor, who had a guy who would stand next to him in this chariot so that when the crowds were cheering for him, the guy next to him would say, "Remember, you're only a man. You're only a man.”
― Al Pacino, Sonny Boy

“Reputation is an idle and most false imposition, oft got without merit and lost without deserving.”
― Al Pacino, Sonny Boy: A Memoir

“I think back to that moment and I realize that I’m still here because of my mother. Of course that’s who I have to thank, and I never thanked her for it. She’s the one who kept a lid on all of this, who parried me away from the path that led to delinquency, danger, and violence, to the needle, that lethal delight called heroin that killed my three closest friends. Petey, Cliffy, Bruce—they all died from drugs. I was not exactly under strict surveillance, but my mother paid attention to where I was in a way that my friends’ families didn’t, and we all knew it. I believe she saved my life.”
― Al Pacino, Sonny Boy

“Fame, as my friend Heathcote Williams said, is the perversion of the natural human instinct for validation and attention.”
― Al Pacino, Sonny Boy: A Memoir

“It was threatening. Brando had become part of a triumvirate of actors, along with Montgomery Clift and James Dean. Clift had the beauty and the soul, the vulnerability. Dean was like a sonnet, compact and economical, able to do so much with the merest gesture or nuance. And if Dean was a sonnet, then Brando was an epic poem. He had the looks. He had the charisma. He had the talent.”
― Al Pacino, Sonny Boy: A Memoir

“Marlon showed me generosity, too, but I don't think he saved it all for me, because he shared it with the audience. It's what made his performance so memorable and so endearing. We all fantasize about having someone like Don Vito we can turn to. So many people are abused in this life, but if you've got a Godfather, you've got someone you can go to, and they will take care of it. That's why people responded to him in the film. It was more than just the bravado and the boldness; it was the humanity underneath it. That's why he had to play Vito larger than life- his physical size, the shoe polish in his hair, the cotton in his cheeks. His Godfather had to be an icon, and Brando made him as iconic as Citizen Kane or Superman, Julius Caesar or George Washington. p124”
― Al Pacino, Sonny Boy

“I have always liked women, but from the time I was very young, I have been shy around them. I don’t woo them. I don’t pursue them. Women either respond to you or they don’t, and if they don’t make the first move toward me, I am a bit reluctant to try again. But with Diane this time things were different. We always had a connection. She understood my read on things, and it felt comforting to have someone who got me. So I went after her. We hung out together, and after a couple of months we decided to get together. We found a tempo and a temperature that was right.”
― Al Pacino, Sonny Boy

“I believe in Spinoza’s God who reveals Himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns Himself with fates and actions of human beings.”
― Al Pacino, Sonny Boy: A Memoir

“- Когато те разпознаят, вълнуват ли се хората?
- Стават особени – така бих се изразил. Гледам напълно нормални хора, понякога високо интелигентни, излъчващи усещане за силно присъствие и изтънчена чувствителност. Но заставаш пред тях и всичко това заминава. Познават те и оглупяват. За миг. После отново се връщат към нормалния си облик. Но е много особено.
Цялата работа при звездите … е като… издигат те накъде нагоре и ставаш звезда, сетне суперзвезда. Какво ще рече това? Че си някъде горе, извън останалите. Това може да се окаже тъжно.”
― Al Pacino, Al Pacino

“everywhere you go, people know that you’ve accomplished something special, and they treat you that way, for about a week. I guess that’s why we have these holidays like Mother’s Day or Father’s Day. We need to be patted on the back, something worthwhile in all that we go through.”
― Al Pacino, Sonny Boy: A Memoir

“Меня часто называют занудой, зазнайкой и мизантропом. Предупреждаю всех: на самом деле я гораздо хуже.”
― Al Pacino

“We shot The Local Stigmatic for a few weeks in Atlanta, with David Wheeler as our director, and a principal cast of myself, Paul Guilfoyle, Joe Maher, and Michael Higgins. When it was finished, we showed the film around to people we admired. We had a great dinner gathering of artists and literati in London. People like Tom Stoppard and David Hare, who all sat at a long table. Harold Pinter had seen the film twice at this point; he sat at the head of the table, and when he wanted to speak to everyone, he rang a little bell and the group fell silent. “Every once in a while,” he said, “we see something different. We come into contact with art in film.” I just sat there stunned. Heathcote was in the room, fiddling with a coin and not looking up at anyone, playing the role of the shy genius. He’d been described as a protégé of Pinter’s, but to actually be in the same room as his literary idol, I guess it all was just too much for him.
I ran the film once for Elaine May, the great actress and filmmaker, who told me, “I liked it very much. But don’t you ever show this to the public. You don’t know your fame. You don’t understand it, and you don’t understand how it registers. You must recognize it.” And she was right. You’re too well-known for this sort of thing. You have to be careful, because you’re going to startle people. Don’t put this in a theater.
I showed it to Jonas Mekas, the independent-film impresario of downtown Manhattan, who ran The Local Stigmatic at his Anthology Film Archives and told me, somewhat optimistically, that I was going to win an Oscar for it. I kept calling Andrew Sarris, the film critic for The Village Voice, to come and see it. And he said, “Stop bothering me, Al. I’ve seen it three times already. I’ve told you what I think. Just show the thing already.” I was trying to get the confidence to screen it for wider audiences. I never did.
I’ve come to realize that when I do my own things, nobody goes. Those avant-garde influences that I was brought up with never left my brain. When I’m left on my own, that’s just what seems to come out. It’s a drawback. People come in with expectations, and they leave angry. The Local Stigmatic is such a specific distillation of me and my take on this subject. It’s 150 proof, which can be a little strong for some people.”
― Al Pacino, Sonny Boy

“Люди забираются в дерьмо,что бы научиться из него выходить.”
― Al Pacino