I 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.”
AL PACINOCertainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp.
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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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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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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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I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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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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My best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That’s my mantra.
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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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[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
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There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
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My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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So that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It’s an extraordinary thing. It’s wild turf up there.
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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I don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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