When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
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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My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
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They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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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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[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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[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
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Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you’re going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
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My best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That’s my mantra.
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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
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Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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