It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
AL PACINOIt would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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sometimes it’s better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn’t know
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The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I’m in it, whatever that means.
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All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
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I didn’t want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it’s OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.
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They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
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They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
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I 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.”
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Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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You need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring.
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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
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Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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