On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
AL PACINOI went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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I’ve been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That’s the stuff my dreams are made of.
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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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I believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
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Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
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I thought it was time to show some of it, to show some of my feelings about things and what I preferred at the time. I prefer them still but not to the extent I did at the time.
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If something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
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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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There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
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