So that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It’s an extraordinary thing. It’s wild turf up there.
AL PACINOI do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
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At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
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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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You’re going to get a sense of what the hell’s going on there. Boy, you’ll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.
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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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And I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.
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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
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I want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
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I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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