If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
AL PACINOI never saw myself as a director. It’s certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That’s par for the course.When you’re a movie star, it went with it. It’s a kind of rite of passage, socially.
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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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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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The play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There’s no doubt in my mind about it.
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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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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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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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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff.
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That’s the way to live – around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
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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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Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
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You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
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Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don’t believe me when I tell them. That’s how I saw myself, in comedy.
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