It used to worry me what people said about me. I’m learning not to worry as much.
AL PACINOI would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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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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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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I did say to her that I thought that she had a real gift, and it’s a good idea to know that. It’s always good to go with your gift.
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Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It’s a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It’s sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.
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I hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
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The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
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My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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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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At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.
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I can see [ talent or curiosity for acting] in my oldest daughter [Julia Marie Pacino]. I don’t know how long she’ll run away from it, but it’s there in her.
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
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