It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
AL PACINOI 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I’m in it, whatever that means.
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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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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 have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
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At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
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Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There’s a liberation in that.
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I used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.
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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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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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Grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
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That’s the way to live – around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
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I was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner – and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.
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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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