I destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
AL PACINORead 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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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 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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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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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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Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.
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Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
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It’s very evocative; it’s like a first cut because you hear ‘She walked to the door,’ and you visualize all these things. ‘She opens the door’ . . . because you read the stage directions, too.
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Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It’s a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It’s sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.
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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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Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
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