Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
AL PACINOI 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
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Many years ago, in the late ’70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire.
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Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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You want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you’re with is also your friend.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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I 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.
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I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
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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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Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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It used to worry me what people said about me. I’m learning not to worry as much.
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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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My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
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A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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An actor basically likes to be asked to do something, no matter what position he’s in. It feels more natural. Sitting and waiting is more gratifying.
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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
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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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