If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it’s just great fodder for you. It’s wonderful source stuff that we die for.
AL PACINOI haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.
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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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Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
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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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They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
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I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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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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You want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you’re with is also your friend.
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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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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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