There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
AL PACINOThe thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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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 would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
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At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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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 did say to her that I thought that she had a real gift, and it’s a good idea to know that. It’s always good to go with your gift.
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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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I’m much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I’ve always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me.
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Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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I believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
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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?
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Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions.
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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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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