I destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
AL PACINOLee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
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I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for ‘Scent of a Woman.’ It was a new feeling. I’d never felt it.
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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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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.
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I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.
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Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
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It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
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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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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That’s par for the course.When you’re a movie star, it went with it. It’s a kind of rite of passage, socially.
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