I am a dancer. But I don’t think I would be on ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ mainly because I would be too shy.
AL PACINOI wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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It turned out that time doesn’t heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly
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When I was doing ‘Scarface,’ I remember being in love at that time. One of the few times in my life. And I was so glad it was at that time.
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I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp.
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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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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you’re going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
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I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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Failure’s relative. I’ve always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something’s not right about that. It’s how you treat failure, too.
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I’ve been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That’s the stuff my dreams are made of.
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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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It’s very evocative; it’s like a first cut because you hear ‘She walked to the door,’ and you visualize all these things. ‘She opens the door’ . . . because you read the stage directions, too.
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Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
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