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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.

Al Pacino

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 once asked my oldest daughter [Julia Marie] if she thought about changing her name in school and she said, “No, I’m a Pacino. That’s my name.”
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I destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
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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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I’m much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I’ve always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me.
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My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
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Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions.
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What kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
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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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I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
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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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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 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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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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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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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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