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.
AL PACINOI’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
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The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
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I’ve never cared for guns. In fact, when I did ‘Scent of a Woman’ I had to learn how to assemble one.
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I do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it’s hard for me to discern. I don’t like what it’s doing to the world.
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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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When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff.
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I’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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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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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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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’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
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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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Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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