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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.

Al Pacino

You need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring.
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Early on in my career, I remember running – fleeing – to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.
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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I’m in it, whatever that means.
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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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[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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I’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
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Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.
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There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And I think it also helps if you are a dreamer. I had my dreams all right. And that is something no one can ever take away.
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Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.
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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.
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I come from the South Bronx – a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.
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So that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It’s an extraordinary thing. It’s wild turf up there.
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I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp…Then I’d find another one.
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I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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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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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, “Hey, I have to stop this silliness.”
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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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Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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You’re in a conversation and everybody’s agreeing with what you’re saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.
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One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, “The Sea Gull,” when was 14 in the Bronx.
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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