I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
AL PACINOI don’t like what’s going on in Iraq, naturally. I’m part of a large majority of people who don’t, but I do not know the whole story.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
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There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
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I’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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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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Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
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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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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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Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
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Many years ago, in the late ’70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire.
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Shakespeare is one of the reasons I’ve stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words.
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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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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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I once asked my oldest daughter [Julia Marie] if she thought about changing her name in school and she said, “No, I’m a Pacino. That’s my name.”
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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