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There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.

Al Pacino

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 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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I’m much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I’ve always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me.
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If something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
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You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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We’re charlatans in a way, we’re magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style.
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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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So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
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To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
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Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
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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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You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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I did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they’ll pay attention long enough to consume it.
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Grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
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A lot of acting is private time.
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I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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I do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it’s hard for me to discern. I don’t like what it’s doing to the world.
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On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
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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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People are always asking me to do Shakespeare – at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It’s like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It’s great therapy.
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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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[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we’re not going to talk about that.
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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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There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.

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