I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
AL PACINOForget 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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I would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
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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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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.
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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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I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
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I haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.
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A lot of acting is private time.
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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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You’re going to get a sense of what the hell’s going on there. Boy, you’ll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.
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When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
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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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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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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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