My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
AL PACINOThe camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
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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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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 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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In America most everybody who’s Italian is half Italian. Except me. I’m all Italian. I’m mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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I found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.
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There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
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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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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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