If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
AL PACINOI want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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.
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I was watching Revolution, and the things I did in that picture, holy smokes! I can’t believe I did that, it’s like another person. It’s the thought of it, it’s just appalling to me.
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Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
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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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My best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That’s my mantra.
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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.
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I don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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I found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.
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My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
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Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
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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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Read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.
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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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Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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Any project that I find encouraging that isn’t attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.
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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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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
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Without coffee something’s missing
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We were doing Scarface many years ago…and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean.
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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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