Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
AL PACINOI’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I personally think if you’re given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way.
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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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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we’re not going to talk about that.
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You want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you’re with is also your friend.
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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Either I act or I die.
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Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
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I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
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I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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I don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
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I like, for instance, ‘Serpico.’ I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could – I could embody him. I could, you 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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