You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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The interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.
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You’re going to get a sense of what the hell’s going on there. Boy, you’ll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.
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What kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
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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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The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
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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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We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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That’s the way to live – around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
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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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My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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To 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.
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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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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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