The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work.
AL PACINOTo me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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The play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There’s no doubt in my mind about it.
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When [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and they would start talking to me, asking me for my autograph and she just went under the table.
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I’m an actor, and everything about me – the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world – has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.
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I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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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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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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I’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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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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I used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
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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 grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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I don’t care if it’s a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath – whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
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