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.
AL PACINOI didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I don’t care if it’s a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath – whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
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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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The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
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I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
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My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
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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.
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That’s the way to live – around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
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I didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,
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I never saw myself as a director. It’s certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.
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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 understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp.
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My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.
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I personally think if you’re given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way.
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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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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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