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It’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.

Al Pacino

It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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I can see [ talent or curiosity for acting] in my oldest daughter [Julia Marie Pacino]. I don’t know how long she’ll run away from it, but it’s there in her.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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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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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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They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
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There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
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I haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.
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We were doing Scarface many years ago…and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean.
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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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It’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.

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