Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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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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 love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
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It turned out that time doesn’t heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly
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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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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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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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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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I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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sometimes it’s better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn’t know
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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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I’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.
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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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You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That’s par for the course.When you’re a movie star, it went with it. It’s a kind of rite of passage, socially.
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Any project that I find encouraging that isn’t attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.
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I can see [ talent or curiosity for acting] in my oldest daughter [Julia Marie Pacino]. I don’t know how long she’ll run away from it, but it’s there in her.
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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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An actor basically likes to be asked to do something, no matter what position he’s in. It feels more natural. Sitting and waiting is more gratifying.
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I like, for instance, ‘Serpico.’ I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could – I could embody him. I could, you know.
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Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
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Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.
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The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
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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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They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
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