Film Quotes by Al Pacino

13 Film quotes by Al Pacino

Al’s brief set feels like a quick backstage pass, sharing his unmistakable passion for the craft and the moments that have defined his storied career.

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I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to…

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I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn't want to be…

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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…

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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don't have a movie,

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You don't get to know anybody in a movie until after it's over. You work less together in a film than you…

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I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because…

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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.…

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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…

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The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when…

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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…

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I would say I am more concerned with the plays I'm going to do than the movies. I'm more comfortable in a…

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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they're not used to?…

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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…

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Take a look at Israel's history and you would know who the terrorist is.

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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…

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Who speaks of triumph? To endure is everything.

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Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.

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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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“Attica! Attica! Attica!”

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I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn't want to do movies that much. I found they took a lot…

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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.

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I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.

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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…

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I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.

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My first language was shy. Its only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.

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When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That's par for the course.When you're a movie star, it went with it. It's a…

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An actor with too much money will usually find a way to get rid of it.

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I'm an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.

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