The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
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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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
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My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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All I am is what I’m going after.
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It used to worry me what people said about me. I’m learning not to worry as much.
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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
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It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.
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I used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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You’re in a conversation and everybody’s agreeing with what you’re saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.
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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.
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