I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
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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We were doing Scarface many years ago…and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean.
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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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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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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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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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[Oscar Wilde’s Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that’s why I guess it’s semi-autobiographical.
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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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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I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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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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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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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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Either I act or I die.
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
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