I can see [ talent or curiosity for acting] in my oldest daughter [Julia Marie Pacino]. I don’t know how long she’ll run away from it, but it’s there in her.
AL PACINOIf you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it’s just great fodder for you. It’s wonderful source stuff that we die for.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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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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The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
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What kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
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I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it’s probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.
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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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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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I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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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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I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don’t believe me when I tell them. That’s how I saw myself, in comedy.
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Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
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