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.
AL PACINOEither I act or I die.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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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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Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you’re going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
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There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, “Hey, I have to stop this silliness.”
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I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.
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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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[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we’re not going to talk about that.
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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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I hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
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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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There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And I think it also helps if you are a dreamer. I had my dreams all right. And that is something no one can ever take away.
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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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To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
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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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