I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.
AL PACINOWhen you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
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I do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it’s hard for me to discern. I don’t like what it’s doing to the world.
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Many years ago, in the late ’70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire.
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It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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A lot of acting is private time.
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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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I am a dancer. But I don’t think I would be on ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ mainly because I would be too shy.
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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
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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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There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, “Hey, I have to stop this silliness.”
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You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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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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