I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
AL PACINOI used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
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You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
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Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There’s a liberation in that.
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I 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.
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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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Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don’t believe me when I tell them. That’s how I saw myself, in comedy.
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
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Any project that I find encouraging that isn’t attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.
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When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
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I haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.
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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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I was watching Revolution, and the things I did in that picture, holy smokes! I can’t believe I did that, it’s like another person. It’s the thought of it, it’s just appalling to me.
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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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I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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