To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
AL PACINOWhen my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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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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I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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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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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 did say to her that I thought that she had a real gift, and it’s a good idea to know that. It’s always good to go with your gift.
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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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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there’s a movie.
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You need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring.
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I found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.
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Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
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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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