[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.
AL PACINOTo be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
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There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
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The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.
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I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
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There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, “Hey, I have to stop this silliness.”
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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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I believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
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And I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.
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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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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
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My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.
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