I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
AL PACINOI once asked my oldest daughter [Julia Marie] if she thought about changing her name in school and she said, “No, I’m a Pacino. That’s my name.”
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner – and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.
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My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
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At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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I do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it’s hard for me to discern. I don’t like what it’s doing to the world.
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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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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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I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
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I come from the South Bronx – a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.
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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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It used to worry me what people said about me. I’m learning not to worry as much.
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I never saw myself as a director. It’s certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.
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My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
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