I thought it was time to show some of it, to show some of my feelings about things and what I preferred at the time. I prefer them still but not to the extent I did at the time.
AL PACINOI found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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The interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.
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Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It’s a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It’s sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.
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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.
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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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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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I didn’t go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.
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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
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I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
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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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The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.
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My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.
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I go all over the world, I have access to many things, many people, many places and it’s wonderful. But now I’m at a point where.
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