Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
AL PACINOI think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
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I don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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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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I would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
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I’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
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Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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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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I haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.
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I come from the South Bronx – a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.
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I never saw myself as a director. It’s certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.
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