I’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
AL PACINOI come from the South Bronx – a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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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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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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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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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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I don’t like what’s going on in Iraq, naturally. I’m part of a large majority of people who don’t, but I do not know the whole story.
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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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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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I did say to her that I thought that she had a real gift, and it’s a good idea to know that. It’s always good to go with your gift.
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I never saw myself as a director. It’s certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.
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I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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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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