A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
AL PACINOI do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
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When [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and they would start talking to me, asking me for my autograph and she just went under the table.
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My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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[Ocean’s Thirteen] is a great group, and it was an opportunity to work with Steven Soderbergh. But mainly? It was shot in L.A. and I want to be next to my kids.
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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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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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I didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,
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I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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I don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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A lot of acting is private time.
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What kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
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The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
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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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