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 PACINOIt would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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The play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There’s no doubt in my mind about it.
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Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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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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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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I would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
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You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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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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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you’re going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
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Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
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It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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