My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
AL PACINOI 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
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The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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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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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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Failure’s relative. I’ve always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something’s not right about that. It’s how you treat failure, too.
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And I think it also helps if you are a dreamer. I had my dreams all right. And that is something no one can ever take away.
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I believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
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It would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.
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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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I want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
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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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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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