I probably write a poem every 50 years.
AL PACINO[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we’re not going to talk about that.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.
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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
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[Ocean’s Thirteen] is a great group, and it was an opportunity to work with Steven Soderbergh. But mainly? It was shot in L.A. and I want to be next to my kids.
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When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
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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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It’s very evocative; it’s like a first cut because you hear ‘She walked to the door,’ and you visualize all these things. ‘She opens the door’ . . . because you read the stage directions, too.
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You need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring.
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I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
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There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.
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All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
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I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
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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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After looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
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