I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
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More Al Pacino Quotes
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You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
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To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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It turned out that time doesn’t heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly
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I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there’s a movie.
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Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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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 only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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I can see [ talent or curiosity for acting] in my oldest daughter [Julia Marie Pacino]. I don’t know how long she’ll run away from it, but it’s there in her.
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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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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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