Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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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Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
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I’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
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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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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It’s a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It’s sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.
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I’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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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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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 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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Shakespeare is one of the reasons I’ve stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words.
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Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it’s just great fodder for you. It’s wonderful source stuff that we die for.
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