I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
AL PACINOIt’s not personal, it’s strictly business
More Al Pacino Quotes
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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Without coffee something’s missing
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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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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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It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.
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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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Read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.
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I’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.
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You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
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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’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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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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I want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
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Shakespeare is one of the reasons I’ve stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words.
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