Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
AL PACINOI’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.
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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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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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I don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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We’re charlatans in a way, we’re magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style.
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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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That’s the way to live – around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
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Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There’s a liberation in that.
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Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
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I would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
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