I probably write a poem every 50 years.
AL PACINOI wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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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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Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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I’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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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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You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.
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It’s very evocative; it’s like a first cut because you hear ‘She walked to the door,’ and you visualize all these things. ‘She opens the door’ . . . because you read the stage directions, too.
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If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I’m in it, whatever that means.
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I found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.
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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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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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