My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
AL PACINOI’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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If something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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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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Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you’re going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
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It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
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I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There’s a liberation in that.
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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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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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