What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
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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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 try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there’s a movie.
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There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
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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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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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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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Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
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I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
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Either I act or I die.
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Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions.
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I picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
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Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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