I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
AL PACINOI probably write a poem every 50 years.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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You need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring.
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The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.
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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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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.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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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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It would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.
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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 found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
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I am a dancer. But I don’t think I would be on ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ mainly because I would be too shy.
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I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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The thing is doing it, that’s what it’s all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It’s a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself.
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