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.
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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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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You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That’s magical. He’s done a great thing.
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If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp…Then I’d find another one.
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I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
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Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It’s a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It’s sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.
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You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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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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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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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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So that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It’s an extraordinary thing. It’s wild turf up there.
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Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
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I used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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I’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
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I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.
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Failure’s relative. I’ve always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something’s not right about that. It’s how you treat failure, too.
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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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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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It turned out that time doesn’t heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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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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