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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More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
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The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
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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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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions.
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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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I’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.
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The play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There’s no doubt in my mind about it.
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Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
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I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp…Then I’d find another one.
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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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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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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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