I can see [ talent or curiosity for acting] in my oldest daughter [Julia Marie Pacino]. I don’t know how long she’ll run away from it, but it’s there in her.
AL PACINOI 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
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I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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I thought it was time to show some of it, to show some of my feelings about things and what I preferred at the time. I prefer them still but not to the extent I did at the time.
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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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I’m much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I’ve always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me.
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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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I personally think if you’re given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way.
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There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
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You want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you’re with is also your friend.
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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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Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
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Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
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I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
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Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
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