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.
AL PACINOMy best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That’s my mantra.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
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I’ve been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That’s the stuff my dreams are made of.
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An actor basically likes to be asked to do something, no matter what position he’s in. It feels more natural. Sitting and waiting is more gratifying.
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You want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you’re with is also your friend.
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Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There’s a liberation in that.
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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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The thing is doing it, that’s what it’s all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It’s a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself.
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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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Without coffee something’s missing
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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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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.
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