They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
AL PACINOI am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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.
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The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
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Either I act or I die.
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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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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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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’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
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I found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.
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I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
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The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
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When [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and they would start talking to me, asking me for my autograph and she just went under the table.
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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.
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Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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