Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
AL PACINOI didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
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The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
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I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp…Then I’d find another one.
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The play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There’s no doubt in my mind about it.
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I’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
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Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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I personally think if you’re given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way.
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Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
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They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
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I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
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Without coffee something’s missing
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My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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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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