It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.
AL PACINOWhen you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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I didn’t go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.
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And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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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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Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
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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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The thing is doing it, that’s what it’s all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It’s a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself.
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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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I don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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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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There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
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