I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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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I like women who can cook. That’s first. Love is very important, but you’ve got to have a friend first.
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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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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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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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
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Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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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 don’t like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight…
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
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The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
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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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“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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