I did say to her that I thought that she had a real gift, and it’s a good idea to know that. It’s always good to go with your gift.
AL PACINOThat was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I am a dancer. But I don’t think I would be on ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ mainly because I would be too shy.
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My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
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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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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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I’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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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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My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
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I like women who can cook. That’s first. Love is very important, but you’ve got to have a friend first.
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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That’s where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that’s what I like. I’ve always felt that’s what I would like to do.
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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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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.
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I’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
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I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
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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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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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A lot of acting is private time.
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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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I’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.
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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 haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.
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[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
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