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 feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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You 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.
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When I was doing ‘Scarface,’ I remember being in love at that time. One of the few times in my life. And I was so glad it was at that time.
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[Ocean’s Thirteen] is a great group, and it was an opportunity to work with Steven Soderbergh. But mainly? It was shot in L.A. and I want to be next to my kids.
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The interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.
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Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
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sometimes it’s better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn’t know
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I picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
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If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I’m in it, whatever that means.
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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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My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
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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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