I’ve never cared for guns. In fact, when I did ‘Scent of a Woman’ I had to learn how to assemble one.
AL PACINOWe start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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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[Marlon] Brando’s a giant on every level. When he acts it’s as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
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Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you’re going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
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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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The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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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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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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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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Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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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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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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I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
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I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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We’re charlatans in a way, we’re magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style.
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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