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.
AL PACINOI 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.”
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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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 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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I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it’s probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.
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It used to worry me what people said about me. I’m learning not to worry as much.
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I don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.
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A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
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I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
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I want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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Take a look at Israel’s history and you would know who the terrorist is.
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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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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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