When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
AL PACINORomantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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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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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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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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I don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.
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After looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
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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.
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So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.
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In America most everybody who’s Italian is half Italian. Except me. I’m all Italian. I’m mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.
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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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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
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