I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
AL PACINOLarry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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What kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
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We’re charlatans in a way, we’re magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style.
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I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it’s probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.
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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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I don’t like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight…
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I 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.
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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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Shakespeare is one of the reasons I’ve stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words.
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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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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.
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