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.”
AL PACINO- When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That’s par for the course.When you’re a movie star, it went with it. It’s a kind of rite of passage, socially.
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When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That’s par for the course.When you’re a movie star, it went with it. It’s a kind of rite of passage, socially.
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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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You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
AL PACINOYou’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
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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.
AL PACINOSometimes 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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I’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
AL PACINOI’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
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I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
AL PACINOI’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
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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.
AL PACINOBrian 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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A lot of acting is private time.
AL PACINOA lot of acting is private time.
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I’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.
AL PACINOI’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.
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We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
AL PACINOWe live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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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.
AL PACINOFailure’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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There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
AL PACINOThere was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
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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.
AL PACINOWhat 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 was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
AL PACINOIs it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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