I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
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So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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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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I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
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What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for ‘Scent of a Woman.’ It was a new feeling. I’d never felt it.
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Early on in my career, I remember running – fleeing – to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.
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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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Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.
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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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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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[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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