My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
AL PACINOThe fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.
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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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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.
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You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.
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It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
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I come from the South Bronx – a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.
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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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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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[Marlon] Brando’s a giant on every level. When he acts it’s as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
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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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That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
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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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And I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.
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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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