When [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and they would start talking to me, asking me for my autograph and she just went under the table.
AL PACINOYou 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
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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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I thought, what’s going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director.
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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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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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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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I’m much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I’ve always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me.
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If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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I 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.
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I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp.
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, “The Sea Gull,” when was 14 in the Bronx.
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I’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.
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