I destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
AL PACINOAn 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
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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.
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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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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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When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
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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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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 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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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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I’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.
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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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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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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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