When [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and they would start talking to me, asking me for my autograph and she just went under the table.
AL PACINOIt’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.
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When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
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The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
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[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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That’s the way to live – around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
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A lot of acting is private time.
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Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It’s a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It’s sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.
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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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Failure’s relative. I’ve always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something’s not right about that. It’s how you treat failure, too.
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I thought, what’s going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director.
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