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.
AL PACINOYou take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That’s magical. He’s done a great thing.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
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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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After looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
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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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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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Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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All I am is what I’m going after.
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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.
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I didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,
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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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