I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
AL PACINOWhen [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and they would start talking to me, asking me for my autograph and she just went under the table.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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I didn’t want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it’s OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.
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I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
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I would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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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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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
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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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I don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you’re going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
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There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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I haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.
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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
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