There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
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 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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Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
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Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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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 talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
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Shakespeare is one of the reasons I’ve stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words.
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If something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.
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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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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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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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