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I was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.

Al Pacino

If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I’m in it, whatever that means.
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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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We’re charlatans in a way, we’re magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style.
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Failure’s relative. I’ve always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something’s not right about that. It’s how you treat failure, too.
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My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
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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.”
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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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Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
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They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
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You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
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When [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and they would start talking to me, asking me for my autograph and she just went under the table.
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Read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.
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Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.
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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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