There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
AL PACINOA lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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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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They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
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Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions.
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On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
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We’re charlatans in a way, we’re magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style.
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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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[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we’re not going to talk about that.
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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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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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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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