Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.
AL PACINOMy grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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I’m always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.
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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 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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I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.
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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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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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Any project that I find encouraging that isn’t attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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Take a look at Israel’s history and you would know who the terrorist is.
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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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My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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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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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
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