When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
AL PACINOMy movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
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The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
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I’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
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Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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I was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.
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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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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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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.
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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 [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and they would start talking to me, asking me for my autograph and she just went under the table.
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If something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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