When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
AL PACINOI 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.
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[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we’re not going to talk about that.
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After looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
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Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don’t believe me when I tell them. That’s how I saw myself, in comedy.
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Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
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[Ocean’s Thirteen] is a great group, and it was an opportunity to work with Steven Soderbergh. But mainly? It was shot in L.A. and I want to be next to my kids.
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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
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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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My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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You’re going to get a sense of what the hell’s going on there. Boy, you’ll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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Either I act or I die.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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In America most everybody who’s Italian is half Italian. Except me. I’m all Italian. I’m mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.
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