I didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,
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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There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
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I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.
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That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
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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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Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
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All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
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Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
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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.
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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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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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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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