There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
AL PACINOLove goes through different stages. But it endures.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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 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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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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We were doing Scarface many years ago…and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean.
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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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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
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I don’t like what’s going on in Iraq, naturally. I’m part of a large majority of people who don’t, but I do not know the whole story.
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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there’s a movie.
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Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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Many years ago, in the late ’70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire.
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Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
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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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It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
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Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.
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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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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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