I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
AL PACINOThey cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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I don’t like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight…
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I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, “Hey, I have to stop this silliness.”
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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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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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I’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
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Either I act or I die.
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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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I destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
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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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I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
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I haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.
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I’ve been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That’s the stuff my dreams are made of.
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