The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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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And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
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I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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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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Either I act or I die.
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Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don’t sum up a man’s life in one moment.
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I 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.
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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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I hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
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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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On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
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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 do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it’s hard for me to discern. I don’t like what it’s doing to the world.
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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
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They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
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