I probably write a poem every 50 years.
AL PACINOCertainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
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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I destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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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 wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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You need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring.
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They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
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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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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’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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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 don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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