So that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It’s an extraordinary thing. It’s wild turf up there.
AL PACINO[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we’re not going to talk about that.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
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Without coffee something’s missing
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At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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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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I’ve never cared for guns. In fact, when I did ‘Scent of a Woman’ I had to learn how to assemble one.
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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.
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I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
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I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
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I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there’s a movie.
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I like, for instance, ‘Serpico.’ I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could – I could embody him. I could, you know.
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I haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.
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I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
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If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
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