People are always asking me to do Shakespeare – at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It’s like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It’s great therapy.
AL PACINOIt turned out that time doesn’t heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
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Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
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My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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I once asked my oldest daughter [Julia Marie] if she thought about changing her name in school and she said, “No, I’m a Pacino. That’s my name.”
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And I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.
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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.
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Read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.
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Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.
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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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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
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I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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