I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
AL PACINOChekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
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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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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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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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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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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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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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My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
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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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I destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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When [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and they would start talking to me, asking me for my autograph and she just went under the table.
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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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