You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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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It’s very evocative; it’s like a first cut because you hear ‘She walked to the door,’ and you visualize all these things. ‘She opens the door’ . . . because you read the stage directions, too.
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We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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People are always asking me to do Shakespeare – at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It’s like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It’s great therapy.
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To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
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The story of Salome, the play itself and what it is, what it contains, and my journey as an actor, as a director, as a filmmaker, as a person struggling with whatever I’m struggling with.
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Shakespeare is one of the reasons I’ve stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words.
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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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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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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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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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I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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I like, for instance, ‘Serpico.’ I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could – I could embody him. I could, you know.
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On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
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I picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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