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.
AL PACINOAnybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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I want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
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I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
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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’ve never cared for guns. In fact, when I did ‘Scent of a Woman’ I had to learn how to assemble one.
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We’re charlatans in a way, we’re magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style.
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The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work.
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The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.
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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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