My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
AL PACINOI thought it was time to show some of it, to show some of my feelings about things and what I preferred at the time. I prefer them still but not to the extent I did at the time.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
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They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
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It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
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I come from the South Bronx – a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.
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When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
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My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
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I thought it was time to show some of it, to show some of my feelings about things and what I preferred at the time. I prefer them still but not to the extent I did at the time.
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it’s probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.
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I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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