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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.

Al Pacino

When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That’s par for the course.When you’re a movie star, it went with it. It’s a kind of rite of passage, socially.
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Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.
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I haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.
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At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
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I once asked my oldest daughter [Julia Marie] if she thought about changing her name in school and she said, “No, I’m a Pacino. That’s my name.”
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It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
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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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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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I did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they’ll pay attention long enough to consume it.
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So that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It’s an extraordinary thing. It’s wild turf up there.
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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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