You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
AL PACINOMy 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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It would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.
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Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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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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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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My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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A lot of acting is private time.
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[Ocean’s Thirteen] is a great group, and it was an opportunity to work with Steven Soderbergh. But mainly? It was shot in L.A. and I want to be next to my kids.
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I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
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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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