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.
AL PACINOI do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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[Oscar Wilde’s Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that’s why I guess it’s semi-autobiographical.
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My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
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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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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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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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Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
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Either I act or I die.
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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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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 don’t like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight…
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All I am is what I’m going after.
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Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It’s a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It’s sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.
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You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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I used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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