I’ve never cared for guns. In fact, when I did ‘Scent of a Woman’ I had to learn how to assemble one.
AL PACINOWhen I was younger, there was the sex thing. That’s par for the course.When you’re a movie star, it went with it. It’s a kind of rite of passage, socially.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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[Ocean’s Thirteen] is a great group, and it was an opportunity to work with Steven Soderbergh. But mainly? It was shot in L.A. and I want to be next to my kids.
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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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sometimes it’s better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn’t know
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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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When I was doing ‘Scarface,’ I remember being in love at that time. One of the few times in my life. And I was so glad it was at that time.
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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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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
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If 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.
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I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
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A lot of acting is private time.
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There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.
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