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 PACINOI went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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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.
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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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I don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.
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My best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That’s my mantra.
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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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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.
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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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We were doing Scarface many years ago…and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean.
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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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I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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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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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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