All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
AL PACINOI haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
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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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I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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And I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.
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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 understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it’s probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.
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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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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 learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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The interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.
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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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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp…Then I’d find another one.
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