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.
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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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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Early on in my career, I remember running – fleeing – to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.
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I’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
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I never saw myself as a director. It’s certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.
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You’re going to get a sense of what the hell’s going on there. Boy, you’ll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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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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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp.
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I’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.
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I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
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