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.
AL PACINOI don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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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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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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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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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
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I hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
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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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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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If something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
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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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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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