It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
AL PACINOMy own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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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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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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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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I don’t care if it’s a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath – whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
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I was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner – and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.
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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, “The Sea Gull,” when was 14 in the Bronx.
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There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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