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.
AL PACINOI had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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Forget 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.
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Without coffee something’s missing
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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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I’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
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There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
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“What was that, George, what were you doing?” And he said, “They were sleeping.” You’re always trying to catch them.
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I used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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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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It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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You’re in a conversation and everybody’s agreeing with what you’re saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.
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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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