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I 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.

Al Pacino

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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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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When [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.
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I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
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My best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That’s my mantra.
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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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There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, “Hey, I have to stop this silliness.”
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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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I want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
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I was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.
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I’m always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.
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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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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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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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[Marlon] Brando’s a giant on every level. When he acts it’s as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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I 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.

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