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.
AL PACINOI picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Early on in my career, I remember running – fleeing – to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.
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If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I’m in it, whatever that means.
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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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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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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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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 don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.
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The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.
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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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