Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
AL PACINOI understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I didn’t go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.
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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.
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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
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You’re in a conversation and everybody’s agreeing with what you’re saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.
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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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On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
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Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
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I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
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Early on in my career, I remember running – fleeing – to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for 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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[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
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I don’t like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight…
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