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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.

Al Pacino

My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.
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After Army Become College Dad Education Insurance Salesman War World
What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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Between Person Theatre Thing
Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
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Look Swallow Taste Touch
The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
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Better Bug Little People Than Thing Upset You
If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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All Get Just Tangled Tango
The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work.
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Do Go Life Made Movie Need Reason Vary Way Work
The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
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Act Ever First Forty Physical Shock Terrible Think Thnk Young
I’ve been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That’s the stuff my dreams are made of.
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Actor Dream Journalist Real Stuff Theatre Tomorrow
An actor basically likes to be asked to do something, no matter what position he’s in. It feels more natural. Sitting and waiting is more gratifying.
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Actor Ask Basically Feel Gratify Matter Natural Position Sit Something Wait
Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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Inspirational Person Play Scarface Violent
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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Deal Machine Movie Much Orchestrate Play Source Wire Word
One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, “The Sea Gull,” when was 14 in the Bronx.
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Actor Ever Gull Made One Play Sea Thing Want
I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
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Always Country Display Emotion Have Person Temperament Tradition Violent
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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Bit Country Dose Everybody Except Full Half Little Mostly
At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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Actor Air Flip Later Look Nowhere Out Point Robe Start Wear
Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.
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Alive Come Director Great Pace Scene Stag Understand Way

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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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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