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 PACINOI did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they’ll pay attention long enough to consume it.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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sometimes it’s better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn’t know
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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I’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.
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I thought, what’s going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director.
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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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Read 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.
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After looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
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All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
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I go all over the world, I have access to many things, many people, many places and it’s wonderful. But now I’m at a point where.
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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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Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
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When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff.
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People are always asking me to do Shakespeare – at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It’s like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It’s great therapy.
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We were doing Scarface many years ago…and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean.
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I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
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[Marlon] Brando’s a giant on every level. When he acts it’s as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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I’ve never cared for guns. In fact, when I did ‘Scent of a Woman’ I had to learn how to assemble one.
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My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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I don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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I thought it was time to show some of it, to show some of my feelings about things and what I preferred at the time. I prefer them still but not to the extent I did at the time.
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Any project that I find encouraging that isn’t attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.
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