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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. I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.

  Al Pacino

  Italian, Style, Acting

  Source: www.rawkblog.net

• The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn't think I had it in me ever, and I wasn't terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties. That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.

  Al Pacino

  Thinking, Acting, Firsts

  Source: www.rawkblog.net

• Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would've wanted to play 10 years ago, I don't want to play now.

  Al Pacino

  Years, Play, Feelings

  Source: www.rawkblog.net

• I was watching Revolution, and the things I did in that picture, holy smokes! I can't believe I did that, it's like another person. It's the thought of it, it's just appalling to me.

  Al Pacino

  Believe, Revolution, Holy

  Source: www.rawkblog.net

• My movies are always being played on television, I'm very well known and all that stuff - I go all over the world, I have access to many things, many people, many places and it's wonderful. But now I'm at a point where...I thought it was time to show some of it, to show some of my feelings about things and what I preferred at the time. I prefer them still but not to the extent I did at the time.

  Al Pacino

  People, Feelings, Stuff

  Source: www.rawkblog.net

• "To be or not to be is" [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend. I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it's probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.

  Al Pacino

  Thinking, Mind, Levels

  Source: www.rawkblog.net

• I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me. 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.

  Al Pacino

  People, Negative, Way

  Source: www.rawkblog.net

• Many years ago, in the late '70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire, read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.

  Al Pacino

  Book, College, Years

  Source: www.rawkblog.net

• My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom - it was almost overwhelming.

  Al Pacino

  Real, Careers, Overwhelming

  Source: www.rawkblog.net

• 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 kind of rite of passage, socially.

  Al Pacino

  Stars, Sex, Kind

  Source: www.rawkblog.net

• I didn't want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally - Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least, I didn't want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it's OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.

  Al Pacino

  Book, Years, Want

  Source: www.rawkblog.net

• Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can't help himself. You're talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, "He's puttin' that in his cash register!"

  Al Pacino

  Talking, Cash, Helping

  Source: www.rawkblog.net

• It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.

  Al Pacino

  Writing, Lines, Helping

  Source: www.rawkblog.net

• There are a couple of times I would've liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.

  Al Pacino

  Couple, Mistake, Thinking

  Source: www.rawkblog.net

• I've had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people - you could almost call them marriages, even though I didn't marry. But it was costly.

  Al Pacino

  Long, People, Deep Relationship

  Source: www.rawkblog.net

• My best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That's my mantra.

  Al Pacino

  Kids, Advice, Want

  Source: www.rawkblog.net

• I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling - I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem. I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.

  Al Pacino

  Baby, Feelings, Paper

  Source: www.rawkblog.net

• 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.

  Al Pacino

  Italian, Talking, Years

  Source: www.rawkblog.net

• I probably write a poem every 50 years.

  Al Pacino

  Writing, Years

  Source: www.rawkblog.net

• 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." I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she's adjusted so marvelously.

  Al Pacino

  Daughter, School, Names

  Source: www.rawkblog.net

• Pretty soon I'll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure. The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.

  Al Pacino

  Children, Names, Worry

  Source: www.rawkblog.net

• I can see [ talent or curiosity for acting] in my oldest daughter [Julia Marie Pacino]. I don't know how long she'll run away from it, but it's there in her.

  Al Pacino

  Daughter, Running, Long

  Source: www.rawkblog.net

• I haven't encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way. I did say to her that I thought that she had a real gift, and it's a good idea to know that. It's always good to go with your gift.

  Al Pacino

  Real, Ideas, Way

  Source: www.rawkblog.net

• [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.

  Al Pacino

  Four, Film, Wanted

  Source: www.rawkblog.net

• [Ocean's Thirteen] is a great group, and it was an opportunity to work with Steven Soderbergh. But mainly? It was shot in L.A. and I want to be next to my kids. So I've been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.

  Al Pacino

  Ocean, Kids, Opportunity

  Source: www.rawkblog.net