It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
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My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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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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Grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
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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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The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work.
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We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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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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I don’t like what’s going on in Iraq, naturally. I’m part of a large majority of people who don’t, but I do not know the whole story.
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“What was that, George, what were you doing?” And he said, “They were sleeping.” You’re always trying to catch them.
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I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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