There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
AL PACINOThe play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There’s no doubt in my mind about it.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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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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I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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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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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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People are always asking me to do Shakespeare – at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It’s like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It’s great therapy.
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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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I’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.
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I’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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When [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and they would start talking to me, asking me for my autograph and she just went under the table.
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