I don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.
AL PACINOGreat directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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You need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring.
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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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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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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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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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My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
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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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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.
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I didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,
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Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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